Just the Charts: COVID Mortality by Age Group

Monthly age-stratified COVID mortality based on public use death certificate files

Introduction

Some of the charts representing age-stratified COVID syndrome mortality will be part of the first long article about US mortality.

I do not want to clutter the article with all 20 of these, so I will instead link to this article.

Methods

• I looked at all death certificates containing the code U071,

• counted the deaths in each age group and month and then

• calculated proportions

Data source

• Multiple Cause of Death Public Use Files

In the results section you will find both charts representing the absolute number of COVID syndrome deaths per month in various age groups and charts representing the proportion of each age group among the total number of monthly COVID syndrome deaths.

Results

Monthly number of deaths

Proportions of age groups among deaths

Discussion

Initially I only looked at proportions and figured the younger cohorts are gaining because the older cohorts had higher rates of protection post-vaccination.

When I looked at the charts for the absolute number of COVID syndrome deaths it became clear that there is more to this. The younger the cohort, the higher the increase in the number of COVID syndrome deaths from 2020 to 2021.