Lower Excess Mortality Seen for Physicians vs General Public During COVID Pandemic

February 7, 2023

(MedPage Today) – Physicians had substantially lower excess mortality compared with the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers found. From March 2020 through December 2021, there were 4,511 deaths among a monthly mean of 785,631 physicians ages 45 to 84, representing 622 more deaths than expected (95% CI 476-769), reported Mathew Kiang, ScD, MPH, of Stanford University School of Medicine in California, and colleagues. (Read More)