In the United States, there were more than 600 excess deaths among physicians from March 2020 to December 2021, according to a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
However, researchers said this trend receded after April 2021, “coinciding with the widespread availability of COVID-19 vaccines.”
Mathew V. Kiang, ScD, MPH, an assistant professor in the department of epidemiology and population health at Stanford University, and colleagues noted that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in more than 1 million excess deaths among the general U.S. population, “defined