The Health Care Cost Institute, in collaboration with researchers at BRG, including Eva Dugoff and Misha Segal, has been analyzing real-time death data collected using obituary data sourced from online newspapers, funeral homes, online memorials, and direct submissions made available through the Datavant ecosystem since the onset of the pandemic. They have found substantially more deaths nationally in April through August of 2020 compared to previous years.
The Impact of COVID-19 on Years of Life Lost
