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Excess Mortality in Massachusetts During the Delta and Omicron Waves of COVID-19

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The COVID-19 pandemic has produced excess deaths, the number of all-cause fatalities exceeding the expected number in any period.1,2 Given reports that the Omicron variant may confer less risk than prior variants, we compared excess mortality in Massachusetts, a highly vaccinated state, during the Delta and initial Omicron periods.3

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Article Information

Accepted for Publication: April 27, 2022.

Published Online: May 20, 2022. doi:10.1001/jama.2022.8045

Corresponding Author: Jeremy Samuel Faust, MD, MS, 10 Vining St, Boston, MA 02115 (jsfaust@gmail.com).

Author Contributions: Dr Faust had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.

Concept and design: Faust, Du, Krumholz.

Acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data: All authors.

Drafting of the manuscript: Faust, Mayes, Panthagani.

Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Faust, Du, Liang, Renton, Krumholz.

Statistical analysis: Faust, Du, Liang, Renton.

Administrative, technical, or material support: Faust, Mayes, Panthagani.

Supervision: Faust.

Data visualization: Panthagani.

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Krumholz reported receiving consulting fees from UnitedHealth, Element Science, Aetna, Reality Labs, F-Prime, and Tesseract/4Catalyst; serving as an expert witness for Martin/Baughman law firm, Arnold and Porter law firm, and Siegfried and Jensen law firm; being a cofounder of Hugo Health, a personal health information platform; being a cofounder of Refactor Health, an enterprise health care, artificial intelligence–augmented data management company; receiving contracts from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services through Yale New Haven Hospital to develop and maintain performance measures that are publicly reported; and receiving grants from Johnson & Johnson outside the submitted work. No other disclosures were reported.

Additional Contributions: We thank the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics, Office of Population Health, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, for assistance with data acquisition; and Zhenqiu Lin, PhD (Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale New Haven Hospital), for statistical support without compensation.

AMA CME Accreditation Information

Credit Designation Statement: The American Medical Association designates this Journal-based CME activity activity for a maximum of 1.00  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to:

  • 1.00 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program;;
  • 1.00 Self-Assessment points in the American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery’s (ABOHNS) Continuing Certification program;
  • 1.00 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program;
  • 1.00 Lifelong Learning points in the American Board of Pathology’s (ABPath) Continuing Certification program; and
  • 1.00 credit toward the CME [and Self-Assessment requirements] of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program

It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting MOC credit.

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