ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Excess mortality from COVID and non-COVID causes in minority populations.
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- Excess Death Rates by State During the COVID-19 Pandemic: United States, 2020‒2023.American journal of public health · 2024Article
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- Excess non-COVID-19-related mortality among inflammatory bowel disease decedents during the COVID-19 pandemic.World journal of gastroenterology · 2024Article
- Making sense of national and international disparities in excess mortality from the COVID-19 pandemic.BMJ global health · 2024Article
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- Trends and disparities in deaths among young persons in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic.Annals of epidemiology · 2024Article
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- Life Expectancy Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2019-2021: Highly Racialized Deaths in Young and Middle Adulthood in the United States as Compared With Other High-Income Countries.American journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Overdose deaths before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in a US county.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
The 2020 US mortality totaled 2.8 million after early March, which is 17.3% higher than age-population-weighted mortality over the same time interval in 2017 to 2019, for a total excess death count of 413,592. We use data on weekly death counts by cause, as well as life tables, to quantify excess mortality and life years lost from both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 causes by race/ethnicity, age, and gender/sex. Excess mortality from non-COVID-19 causes is substantial and much more heavily concentrated among males and minorities, especially Black, non-Hispanic males, than COVID-19 deaths. Thirty-four percent of the excess life years lost for males is from non-COVID-19 causes. While minorities represent 36% of COVID-19 deaths, they represent 70% of non-COVID-19 related excess deaths and 58% of non-COVID-19 excess life years lost. Black, non-Hispanic males represent only 6.9% of the population, but they are responsible for 8.9% of COVID-19 deaths and 28% of 2020 excess deaths from non-COVID-19 causes. For this group, nearly half of the excess life years lost in 2020 are due to non-COVID-19 causes.
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