Closed but Not Protected: Excess Deaths Among the Amish and Mennonites During the COVID-19 Pandemic

“Excess deaths” is a means to estimate the lethality of COVID-19 (directly and indirectly). Assessing “excess death” in closed religious communities provides information on how COVID-19 impacted these communities. We use obituary information published in an Amish/Mennonite newspaper to examine exces...

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Autores principales: Stein, Rachel E., Corcoran, Katie E., Colyer, Corey J., Mackay, Annette M., Guthrie, Sara K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8195242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34117598
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-021-01307-5
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Guthrie, Sara K.
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description “Excess deaths” is a means to estimate the lethality of COVID-19 (directly and indirectly). Assessing “excess death” in closed religious communities provides information on how COVID-19 impacted these communities. We use obituary information published in an Amish/Mennonite newspaper to examine excess death among the Amish/Mennonites in 2020. Our results indicate the Amish/Mennonite excess death rates are similar to the national trends in the USA. The excess death rate for Amish/Mennonites spiked with a 125% increase in November 2020. The impact of COVID-19 on this closed religious community highlights the need to consider religion to stop the spread of COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-81952422021-06-15 Closed but Not Protected: Excess Deaths Among the Amish and Mennonites During the COVID-19 Pandemic Stein, Rachel E. Corcoran, Katie E. Colyer, Corey J. Mackay, Annette M. Guthrie, Sara K. J Relig Health Original Paper “Excess deaths” is a means to estimate the lethality of COVID-19 (directly and indirectly). Assessing “excess death” in closed religious communities provides information on how COVID-19 impacted these communities. We use obituary information published in an Amish/Mennonite newspaper to examine excess death among the Amish/Mennonites in 2020. Our results indicate the Amish/Mennonite excess death rates are similar to the national trends in the USA. The excess death rate for Amish/Mennonites spiked with a 125% increase in November 2020. The impact of COVID-19 on this closed religious community highlights the need to consider religion to stop the spread of COVID-19. Springer US 2021-06-11 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8195242/ /pubmed/34117598 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-021-01307-5 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Stein, Rachel E.
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title_short Closed but Not Protected: Excess Deaths Among the Amish and Mennonites During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8195242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34117598
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-021-01307-5
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