What The Study Did: Researchers used publicly available data to examine all-cause excess mortality (the gap between observed and expected deaths) and COVID-19-related mortality during the early period of the pandemic among adults ages 25 to 44.
Authors: Jeremy Samuel Faust, M.D., M.S., of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, is the corresponding author.
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(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.24243)
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