{"id":9964,"date":"2021-05-21T11:27:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T18:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9964"},"modified":"2021-05-24T11:27:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:27:47","slug":"covid-19-and-excess-mortality-in-the-united-states-a-county-level-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/21\/covid-19-and-excess-mortality-in-the-united-states-a-county-level-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 and Excess Mortality in the United States: A County-Level Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An ecological, cross-sectional analysis of 2020 US county-level (N=2,096) National Center for Health Statistics data on COVID-19 and all-cause mortality found that direct COVID-19 death counts substantially underestimated total excess mortality attributable to COVID-19. The authors calculated total excess deaths as the proportion of deaths that occurred beyond the expected number of deaths based on data from prior years. Of excess deaths, 17% were attributable to a direct cause other than COVID-19. The proportions of these excess non-COVID deaths were higher in counties with lower socioeconomic status, higher prevalence of comorbidities, more Black and Hispanic residents, and counties in the US South and West.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stokes et al. (May 2021). COVID-19 and Excess Mortality in the United States: A County-Level Analysis. PLoS Medicine. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pmed.1003571\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pmed.1003571<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ecological, cross-sectional analysis of 2020 US county-level (N=2,096) National Center for Health Statistics data on COVID-19 and all-cause mortality found that direct COVID-19 death counts substantially underestimated total excess mortality attributable to COVID-19. The authors calculated total excess deaths as the proportion of deaths that occurred beyond the expected number of deaths based on&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/21\/covid-19-and-excess-mortality-in-the-united-states-a-county-level-analysis\/\">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":[29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-9964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964","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=9964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9965,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964\/revisions\/9965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9964"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}