New Interactive App: Impact of COVID-19 on the USA Population
MEDICI has published an interactive online app, created by Dr. Eunice Chan. The app displays the number of excess deaths, number of years in life expectancy decreased and the number of years reverted in historical life expectancy gains, and the years of life lost attributed to the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19, for the total, male, and female population in the United States at the country and state level for 2020.
Users can adjust the app to display data by chart or map view, metric (excess mortality, life expectancy, years of life lost), state, age cohort, gender, and by impact (direct or indirect). A full description of the methodology used to the develop the app was published in PLOS One:
