All-Cause Excess Mortality and COVID-19-Related Mortality Among US Adults Aged 25-44 Years, March-July 2020

JAMA. 2021 Feb 23;325(8):785-787. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.24243.

Abstract

This study compares all-cause excess mortality and COVID-19–related mortality during the early pandemic period (March-July 2020) with unintentional drug overdoses, the usual leading cause of death in young adults, during the same period in 2018 among adults aged 25 to 44 years.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Analgesics, Opioid / poisoning
  • COVID-19 / mortality*
  • Cause of Death
  • Drug Overdose / mortality*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mortality, Premature
  • United States / epidemiology

Substances

  • Analgesics, Opioid