“Objectives: The first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted healthcare systems, creating an environment by which deaths have occurred that are not directly due to COVID-19, but have occurred owing to the healthcare and societal environment resulting from COVID-19. The objective of this research is to quantify such excess deaths, partitioned by age group and gender…
Discussion: The data do not explain why there is a statistically significant increase in expected 2020 non–COVID-19 weekly deaths compared with the expected hybrid 2019 weekly deaths. Czeisler et al.6 discuss delays or avoidance of non–COVID-19 medical care during the pandemic, which could contribute to excess deaths beyond those attributed to COVID-19…
The key takeaway from this analysis is that excess deaths across multiple age and gender cohorts occurred beyond what has been attributed to COVID-19. These excess deaths indicate that people across many age and gender cohorts have died unexpectedly. Over the ensuing months, possible explanations for such excess deaths may become more apparent.”
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