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. 2021 Jul 6;326(1):84-86.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.8012.

Mortality From Drug Overdoses, Homicides, Unintentional Injuries, Motor Vehicle Crashes, and Suicides During the Pandemic, March-August 2020

Jeremy S Faust  1 , Chengan Du  2 , Katherine Dickerson Mayes  3 , Shu-Xia Li  4 , Zhenqiu Lin  4 , Michael L Barnett  5 , Harlan M Krumholz  2
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Mortality From Drug Overdoses, Homicides, Unintentional Injuries, Motor Vehicle Crashes, and Suicides During the Pandemic, March-August 2020

Jeremy S Faust et al. JAMA. .

Abstract

This study uses national death certificate data to characterize trends in death and excess mortality from drug overdoses, homicides, unintentional injuries, motor vehicle crashes, and suicide during the first 6 months of the pandemic in the US.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Lin reported working under contract from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to develop and maintain measures for hospital performance that are publicly reported. Dr Krumholz reported receiving personal fees from UnitedHealth, IBM Watson Health, Element Science, Aetna, Facebook, Siegfried & Jensen Law Firm, Arnold & Porter Law Firm, Martin/Baughman Law Firm, F-Prime, and National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Beijing; being the co-founder of HugoHealth, a personal health information platform, and Refactor Health, an AI-augmented data management company; receiving contracts from CMS through Yale New Haven Hospital to develop and maintain measures of hospital performance; and receiving grants from Medtronic and FDA, Medtronic and Johnson & Johnson, and Shenzhen Center for Health Information. No other disclosures were reported.

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Figure.
Figure.. Cause-Specific Mortality Due to Select External Causes in the US, January 2015 to August 2020
The solid line indicates raw cause-specific death counts from January 2015 to August 2020; the dotted line and shading represent the point estimate and projected 95% CI for cause-specific expected deaths from March to August 2020 using the seasonal adjusted model. The y-axes are raw death counts.
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