Severity of the COVID-19 pandemic assessed with all-cause mortality in the United States during 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the United States, infection with SARS-CoV-2 caused 380,000 reported deaths from March to December 2020.

Methods

We adapted the Moving Epidemic Method to all-cause mortality data from the United States to assess the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic across age groups and all 50 states. By comparing all-cause mortality during the pandemic with intensity thresholds derived from recent, historical all-cause mortality, we categorized each week from March to December 2020 as either low severity, moderate severity, high severity, or very high severity.

Results

Nationally for all ages combined, all-cause mortality was in the very high severity category for 9 weeks. Among people 18 to 49 years of age, there were 29 weeks of consecutive very high severity mortali

SUBMITTER: Dahlgren FS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8983917 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature