Measuring the COVID-19 Mortality Burden in the United States : A Microsimulation Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Fully assessing the mortality burden of the COVID-19 pandemic requires measuring years of life lost (YLLs) and accounting for quality-of-life differences.

Objective

To measure YLLs and quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) lost from the COVID-19 pandemic, by age, sex, race/ethnicity, and comorbidity.

Design

State-transition microsimulation model.

Data sources

Health and Retirement Study, Panel Study of Income Dynamics, data on excess deaths from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and nursing home death counts from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Target population

U.S. population aged 25 years and older.

Time horizon

Lifetime.

Perspective

Individual.

Intervention

COVID-19 pandemic through 13 March 2

SUBMITTER: Reif J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8462514 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature