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Excess Mortality in the Vaccination Era in the United States, By State and 6-Month Period

Faust, J. S.; Renton, B.; Du, C.; Chen, A. J.; Li, S.-X.; Lin, Z.; Krumholz, H. M.

2023-03-08 public and global health
10.1101/2023.03.07.23286927 medRxiv
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IntroductionThe US continued to record all-cause excess mortality after the rollout of vaccines. We sought to quantify excess mortality by state and compare these rates to primary series vaccination completion levels. MethodsObservational cohort, US and state-level data. Expected monthly deaths were modeled using pre-pandemic US and state-level data (2015-2020). Mortality data was accessed from CDC public reporting. ResultsWe find that in a two-year period since the rollout of vaccines, the US recorded >874,000 excess deaths. Vaccination rates and excess mortality were most strongly correlated in first two periods before the Omicron variant. ConclusionThe association between vaccination and lower excess mortality rates was strongest in 2021 and early 2022, prior to high population rates of infection-acquired immunity. The findings underscore the benefits of the rapid vaccination rollout campaign and the continued need to boost at-risk populations.

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