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. 2022 Jul 5;328(1):74-76.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.8045.

Excess Mortality in Massachusetts During the Delta and Omicron Waves of COVID-19

Jeremy Samuel Faust  1 , Chengan Du  2 , Chenxue Liang  2 , Katherine Dickerson Mayes  3 , Benjamin Renton  4 , Kristen Panthagani  5 , Harlan M Krumholz  2
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Excess Mortality in Massachusetts During the Delta and Omicron Waves of COVID-19

Jeremy Samuel Faust et al. JAMA. .

Abstract

This modeling study estimates the excess deaths attributable to COVID-19 disease in Massachusetts during the Delta (June to December 2021) and Omicron (December 2021 to February 2022) waves.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Krumholz reported receiving consulting fees from UnitedHealth, Element Science, Aetna, Reality Labs, F-Prime, and Tesseract/4Catalyst; serving as an expert witness for Martin/Baughman law firm, Arnold and Porter law firm, and Siegfried and Jensen law firm; being a cofounder of Hugo Health, a personal health information platform; being a cofounder of Refactor Health, an enterprise health care, artificial intelligence–augmented data management company; receiving contracts from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services through Yale New Haven Hospital to develop and maintain performance measures that are publicly reported; and receiving grants from Johnson & Johnson outside the submitted work. No other disclosures were reported.

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Figure.
Figure.. Weekly All-Cause Excess Deaths in Massachusetts per 100 000 Person-Weeks From February 9, 2020, Through February 20, 2022
Insets for each age group are enlargements of the Delta period (dotted lines), Delta-Omicron transition period (dashed lines), and Omicron period (solid lines). Baseline (0 excess deaths) was determined with seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average.
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