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. 2022 Oct;22(10):1419-1420.
doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(22)00547-3. Epub 2022 Aug 22.

Uncoupling of all-cause excess mortality from COVID-19 cases in a highly vaccinated state

Jeremy Samuel Faust  1 , Benjamin Renton  2 , Alexander Junxiang Chen  3 , Chengan Du  4 , Chenxue Liang  4 , Shu-Xia Li  4 , Zhenqiu Lin  4 , Harlan M Krumholz  4
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Uncoupling of all-cause excess mortality from COVID-19 cases in a highly vaccinated state

Jeremy Samuel Faust et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2022 Oct.
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Conflict of interest statement

HMK 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. All other authors declare no competing interests. We thank the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics, Office of Population Health, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, for assistance with data acquisition.

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All-cause excess mortality, COVID-19-associated hospitalisations, and confirmed COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts, USA (A) Shows the cumulative all-cause excess mortality (blue line) plotted against weekly confirmed new COVID-19 cases (light blue line) in Massachusetts, USA, from February, 2020, through June, 2022. (B) Shows the cumulative number of COVID-19-associated hospitalisations (purple line) plotted against weekly confirmed new COVID-19 cases (light blue line) in Massachusetts, USA, from February, 2020, through June, 2022; hospitalisation data did not become available until May, 2020.
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