{"id":9254,"date":"2021-04-16T11:56:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T18:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9254"},"modified":"2021-04-19T11:56:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T18:56:47","slug":"notes-from-the-field-update-on-excess-deaths-associated-with-the-covid-19-pandemic-united-states-january-26-2020-february-27-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/16\/notes-from-the-field-update-on-excess-deaths-associated-with-the-covid-19-pandemic-united-states-january-26-2020-february-27-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the Field: Update on Excess Deaths Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic \u2014 United States, January 26, 2020\u2013February 27, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An estimated 545,600 to 660,200 excess deaths occurred in the US during January 2020 to February 2021 according to data from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS). Excess deaths peaked during the weeks ending April 11, 2020, August 1, 2020, and January 2, 2021. Approximately 75-88% of excess deaths were directly associated with COVID-19. Excess deaths were estimated using mortality data from 2013 through February 2021.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rossen et al.\u00a0(Apr 16, 2021). Notes from the Field: Update on Excess Deaths Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic \u2014 United States, January 26, 2020\u2013February 27, 2021. MMWR. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7015a4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7015a4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 545,600 to 660,200 excess deaths occurred in the US during January 2020 to February 2021 according to data from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS). Excess deaths peaked during the weeks ending April 11, 2020, August 1, 2020, and January 2, 2021. Approximately 75-88% of excess deaths were directly associated with COVID-19. Excess&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/16\/notes-from-the-field-update-on-excess-deaths-associated-with-the-covid-19-pandemic-united-states-january-26-2020-february-27-2021\/\">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":[63,29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-9254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-mortality","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9254","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=9254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9255,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9254\/revisions\/9255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9254"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}