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Impact of COVID-19 on excess mortality, life expectancy, and years of life lost in the United States

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  • Eunice Y S Chan
  • Davy Cheng
  • Janet Martin

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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.

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  • Eunice Y S Chan & Davy Cheng & Janet Martin, 2021. "Impact of COVID-19 on excess mortality, life expectancy, and years of life lost in the United States," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(9), pages 1-12, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0256835
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256835
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    1. Bishoy Louis Zaki & Francesco Nicoli & Ellen Wayenberg & Bram Verschuere, 2022. "Contagious inequality: economic disparities and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic [Excess all-cause mortality and COVID-19-related mortality: A temporal analysis in 22 countries, from J," Policy and Society, Darryl S. Jarvis and M. Ramesh, vol. 41(2), pages 199-216.
    2. Josep Lledó & Jose M. Pavía & Jorge Sánchez Salas, 2023. "An alternative approach to manage mortality catastrophe risks under Solvency II," Risk Management, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 25(3), pages 1-22, September.

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