Assessing the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on US Mortality: A County-Level Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Covid-19 excess deaths refer to increases in mortality over what would normally have been expected in the absence of the Covid-19 pandemic. Several prior studies have calculated excess deaths in the United States but were limited to the national or state level, precluding an examination of area-level variation in excess mortality and excess deaths not assigned to Covid-19. In this study, we take advantage of county-level variation in Covid-19 mortality to estimate excess deaths associated with the pandemic and examine how the extent of excess mortality not assigned to Covid-19 varies across subsets of counties defined by sociodemographic and health characteristics.

Methods and findings

In this ecological, cross-sectional study, we made use of provisional National

SUBMITTER: Stokes AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7480051 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature