{"id":8282,"date":"2020-07-16T11:47:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T18:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8282"},"modified":"2021-04-01T11:47:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T18:47:59","slug":"estimating-the-burden-of-covid-19-on-mortality-life-expectancy-and-lifespan-inequality-in-england-and-wales-a-population-level-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/16\/estimating-the-burden-of-covid-19-on-mortality-life-expectancy-and-lifespan-inequality-in-england-and-wales-a-population-level-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimating the Burden of COVID-19 on Mortality Life Expectancy and Lifespan Inequality in England and Wales A Population-Level Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[Pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Using\u00a0publicly<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">available\u00a0death registration data, Aburto et al. performed a demographic analysis of all-cause mortality\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">during<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the first 26 weeks of 2020 in England and Wales and estimated 53,937 excess deaths (54% male).\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">These deaths represent a 31% increase in mortality compared to the expected level based on previous years.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The investigators also found a life expectancy at birth decrease of 1.7\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">females and 1.9 years for males relative to 2019, respectively.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/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\">Aburto et al. 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Estimating the Burden of COVID-19 on Mortality Life Expectancy and Lifespan Inequality in England and Wales A Population-Level Study.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pre-print\u00a0downloaded July 16 from<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.07.16.20155077\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.07.16.20155077<\/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>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0Using\u00a0publicly&#8211;available\u00a0death registration data, Aburto et al. performed a demographic analysis of all-cause mortality\u00a0during\u00a0the first 26 weeks of 2020 in England and Wales and estimated 53,937 excess deaths (54% male).\u00a0These deaths represent a 31% increase in mortality compared to the expected level based on previous years.\u00a0The investigators also found a life expectancy at&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/16\/estimating-the-burden-of-covid-19-on-mortality-life-expectancy-and-lifespan-inequality-in-england-and-wales-a-population-level-study\/\">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":[16],"class_list":["post-8282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282","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=8282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8283,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282\/revisions\/8283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8282"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}