Comparison of Estimated Excess Deaths in New York City During the COVID-19 and 1918 Influenza Pandemics

Jeremy Samuel Faust; Zhenqiu Lin; Carlos Del Rio

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.17527

Comparison of Estimated Excess Deaths in New York City During the COVID-19 and 1918 Influenza Pandemics

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Aug 3;3(8):e2017527. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.17527.

Authors

Jeremy Samuel Faust¹, Zhenqiu Lin², Carlos Del Rio^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Health Policy and Public Health, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston Massachusetts.
² Yale New Haven Hospital, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, New Haven, Connecticut.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
⁴ Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Abstract

This cohort study compares the excess deaths in New York City during the peak of the 1918 H1N1 influenza pandemic with those during the early period of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Publication types

Comparative Study
Historical Article

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / mortality*
Coronavirus Infections / virology
History, 20th Century
Humans
Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype
Influenza, Human / history
Influenza, Human / mortality*
Influenza, Human / virology
New York City / epidemiology
Pandemics* / history
Pneumonia, Viral / mortality*
Pneumonia, Viral / virology
SARS-CoV-2