Weeks of life lost to COVID-19, the case of the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Years of life lost (YLL) is a preferable indicator to assess the mortality impact of COVID-19. This indicator still has limits, however. Therefore, a new approach and its early-death weeks (eDW) index has been recently proposed to alter YLL. This study aims to add a new approach, the moving excess-deficit mortality model, and its method, the weeks of life lost (WLL) index. The new method was then used to measure WLL associated with COVID-19 in the United States (US).

Methods

The natural mortality law and the random pattern of spreading COVID-19 were employed to support calculating WLL. The natural mortality law implied that under the same living conditions and the weaker would die earlier. The random spreading of COVID-19 assumed that COVID-19 causes the weekly nu

SUBMITTER: Vu Manh C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9208283 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature