Leading Causes of Death in the US During the COVID-19 Pandemic, March 2020 to October 2021

Meredith S Shiels; Anika T Haque; Amy Berrington de González; Neal D Freedman

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.2476

Leading Causes of Death in the US During the COVID-19 Pandemic, March 2020 to October 2021

JAMA Intern Med. 2022 Aug 1;182(8):883-886. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.2476.

Authors

Meredith S Shiels¹, Anika T Haque¹, Amy Berrington de González¹, Neal D Freedman¹

Affiliation

¹ Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland.

Abstract

Using national death certificate data for 2020 and provisional data for 2021 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this cross-sectional study examines the leading causes of death in the US, overall and in various age groups.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Causality
Cause of Death
Humans
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2