COVID-19 and excess mortality in the United States: A county-level analysis

Andrew C. Stokes; Dielle J. Lundberg; Irma T. Elo; Katherine Hempstead; Jacob Bor; Samuel H. Preston

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003571

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COVID-19 and excess mortality in the United States: A county-level analysis

Andrew C. Stokes ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: acstokes@bu.edu

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8502-3636

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Dielle J. Lundberg,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1494-4443

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Irma T. Elo,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Sociology and Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Katherine Hempstead,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
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Jacob Bor,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5112-8536

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Samuel H. Preston

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Sociology and Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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COVID-19 and excess mortality in the United States: A county-level analysis

Andrew C. Stokes,
Dielle J. Lundberg,
Irma T. Elo,
Katherine Hempstead,
Jacob Bor,
Samuel H. Preston

Published: May 20, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003571

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Maybe a much less estimate of excess mortality due to COVID-19

Posted by Rajeevgupta on 28 Jun 2021 at 19:27 GMT

In many (maybe most) countries the regulatory authorities and the Governments deliberately hide excess mortality in order to limit the panic reactions in the cities and countries particularly during the peaks in mortality. It is hard to estimate the true data without counts at burial and cremation grounds. So all such studies must include this important point.

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