作者
Daniel M Weinberger, Jenny Chen, Ted Cohen, Forrest W Crawford, Farzad Mostashari, Don Olson, Virginia E Pitzer, Nicholas G Reich, Marcus Russi, Lone Simonsen, Anne Watkins, Cecile Viboud
发表日期
2020/10/1
期刊
JAMA internal medicine
卷号
180
期号
10
页码范围
1336-1344
出版商
American Medical Association
简介
Importance
Efforts to track the severity and public health impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States have been hampered by state-level differences in diagnostic test availability, differing strategies for prioritization of individuals for testing, and delays between testing and reporting. Evaluating unexplained increases in deaths due to all causes or attributed to nonspecific outcomes, such as pneumonia and influenza, can provide a more complete picture of the burden of COVID-19.
Objective
To estimate the burden of all deaths related to COVID-19 in the United States from March to May 2020.
Design, Setting, and Population
This observational study evaluated the numbers of US deaths from any cause and deaths from pneumonia, influenza, and/or COVID-19 from March 1 through May 30, 2020, using public data of the entire US population from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS …
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