Excess Deaths Highest Among Younger Minorities During COVID Pandemic

MedPage Today October 11, 2024
Kristina Fiore

— Racial, ethnic disparities in all-cause excess deaths worst among those ages 25 to 64

When it came to excess U.S. deaths during the COVID pandemic, racial and ethnic disparities hit younger populations particularly hard, a cross-sectional study showed.

People ages 25 to 64 had the greatest increases in observed-to-expected all-cause mortality ratios, and these were highest among American Indian/Alaska Native (1.45), Hispanic (1.40), and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander (1.39) groups, Jeremy Faust, MD, of Mass General Brigham in Boston, and colleagues reported in JAMA Network Open. (Faust is MedPage Today’s editor-in-chief.)

“Those in the working age group were dying at especially disproportionate rates,” co-author Utibe Essien, MD, of the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California...

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