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Impact of COVID-19 on excess mortality, life expectancy, and years of life lost in the United States
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 9, p e0256835 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- This paper quantifies the net impact (direct and indirect effects) of the pandemic on the United States population in 2020 using three metrics: excess deaths, life expectancy, and total years of life lost. The findings indicate there were 375,235 excess deaths, with 83% attributable to direct, and 17% attributable to indirect effects of COVID-19. The decrease in life expectancy was 1.67 years, translating to a reversion of 14 years in historical life expectancy gains. Total years of life lost in 2020 was 7,362,555 across the USA (73% directly attributable, 27% indirectly attributable to COVID-19), with considerable heterogeneity at the individual state level.
- Subjects :
- Male
Viral Diseases
Epidemiology
Global Health
Geographical locations
Medical Conditions
Cause of Death
Medicine and Health Sciences
Medicine
Public and Occupational Health
Child
Cause of death
Excess mortality
Aged, 80 and over
education.field_of_study
Multidisciplinary
Mortality rate
Middle Aged
Infectious Diseases
Child, Preschool
Female
Research Article
Adult
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
Religious Faiths
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Adolescent
Death Rates
Science
Population
Islam
Life Expectancy
Population Metrics
Humans
education
Pandemics
Aged
Population Biology
business.industry
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
Infant
Biology and Life Sciences
Covid 19
United States
Years of potential life lost
Age Groups
North America
Life expectancy
Population Groupings
People and places
business
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PloS one
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d1cc6abf240414724bdb6c349022b7f2