{"id":9993,"date":"2021-05-24T11:52:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9993"},"modified":"2021-05-25T11:53:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T18:53:06","slug":"mortality-from-drug-overdoses-homicides-unintentional-injuries-motor-vehicle-crashes-and-suicides-during-the-pandemic-march-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/24\/mortality-from-drug-overdoses-homicides-unintentional-injuries-motor-vehicle-crashes-and-suicides-during-the-pandemic-march-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortality From Drug Overdoses, Homicides, Unintentional Injuries, Motor Vehicle Crashes, and Suicides During the Pandemic, March-August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An analysis of excess mortality in the US during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic (March \u2013 August 2020) found higher-than-expected deaths due to drug overdoses (n = 10,443 excess deaths), homicides (n = 2,014), and unintentional injuries (n = 7,497), and lower-than-expected numbers of suicides (n = 2,432 fewer deaths). Drug overdoses accounted for 13% of non\u2013COVID-19 excess mortality, homicides represented 2%, and unintentional injuries accounted for 9% of non\u2013COVID-19 excess mortality. No significant change in motor vehicle crash deaths was observed. Expected mortality was calculated with seasonally-adjusted models using data from January 2015 to February 2020.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Faust et al.\u00a0(May 21, 2021). Mortality From Drug Overdoses, Homicides, Unintentional Injuries, Motor Vehicle Crashes, and Suicides During the Pandemic, March-August 2020. JAMA. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2021.8012\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2021.8012<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of excess mortality in the US during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic (March \u2013 August 2020) found higher-than-expected deaths due to drug overdoses (n = 10,443 excess deaths), homicides (n = 2,014), and unintentional injuries (n = 7,497), and lower-than-expected numbers of suicides (n = 2,432 fewer deaths). Drug overdoses&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/24\/mortality-from-drug-overdoses-homicides-unintentional-injuries-motor-vehicle-crashes-and-suicides-during-the-pandemic-march-august-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":[29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-9993","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\/9993","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=9993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9994,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions\/9994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9993"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}