{"id":7922,"date":"2020-07-02T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T03:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7922"},"modified":"2021-03-29T20:01:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T03:01:39","slug":"estimation-of-excess-deaths-associated-with-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-the-united-states-march-to-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/02\/estimation-of-excess-deaths-associated-with-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-the-united-states-march-to-may-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimation of Excess Deaths Associated With the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, March to May 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Weinberger et al<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. report that there were\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">approximately\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">122,300\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">more deaths\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(95%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">PI<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 116,800-127,000)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in the US<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0from March to May 2020<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0than would typically\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">be expected<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">There were approximately 781,000 total deaths identified<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in the US<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">during this period<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, including\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">95,235 deaths officially attributed to COVID-19. The number of excess all-cause deaths was 28% higher than the official tally of COVID-19 deaths during that period. There was substantial variability between states in the difference between official COVID-19 deaths and the estimated burden of excess deaths.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Weinberger et al. (July 1, 2020). Estimation of Excess Deaths Associated With the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, March to May 2020. JAMA Internal Medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamainternmed.2020.3391\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamainternmed.2020.3391<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weinberger et al. report that there were\u00a0approximately\u00a0122,300\u00a0more deaths\u00a0(95%PI, 116,800-127,000)\u00a0in the US\u00a0from March to May 2020\u00a0than would typically\u00a0be expected.\u00a0There were approximately 781,000 total deaths identified\u00a0in the US\u00a0during this period, including\u00a095,235 deaths officially attributed to COVID-19. The number of excess all-cause deaths was 28% higher than the official tally of COVID-19 deaths during that period. There was&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/02\/estimation-of-excess-deaths-associated-with-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-the-united-states-march-to-may-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-7922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7923,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922\/revisions\/7923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7922"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}