US Trends in COVID-19-Associated Hospitalization and Mortality Rates Before and After Reopening Economies.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

After abrupt closures of businesses and public gatherings in the US in late spring 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, by mid-May 2020, most states reopened their economies. Owing in part to a lack of earlier data, there was little evidence on whether state reopening policies influenced important pandemic outcomes-COVID-19-related hospitalizations and mortality-to guide future decision-making in the remainder of this and future pandemics.

Objective

To investigate changes in COVID-19-related hospitalizations and mortality trends after reopening of US state economies.

Design setting and participants

Using an interrupted time series approach, this cross-sectional study examined trends in per-capita COVID-19-related hospitalizations and deaths before and after s

SUBMITTER: Gupta S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8796994 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature