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. 2024 Jan;39(1):142-146.
doi: 10.1007/s11606-023-08374-2. Epub 2023 Aug 24.

State-Level Excess Mortality and Potential Deaths Averted in US Adults During the Delta and Omicron Waves of COVID-19

Benjamin Renton  1 , Chengan Du  2 , Alexander Junxiang Chen  3 , Shu-Xia Li  2 , Zhenqiu Lin  2 , Harlan M Krumholz  2 , Jeremy Samuel Faust  4
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State-Level Excess Mortality and Potential Deaths Averted in US Adults During the Delta and Omicron Waves of COVID-19

Benjamin Renton et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Jan.
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Conflict of interest statement

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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Fig. 1
All-cause excess mortality in each US state (and Washington DC) are graphed per 100,000 population against contemporaneous vaccination rate. Each dot corresponds to a state. Each panel shows a different three-month period during the pandemic. Pearson correlations between excess mortality and contemporaneous vaccination rates (with their corresponding p values) are displayed with each period.
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