Mortality Surveillance for the COVID-19 Pandemic: Review of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Multiple

Diba Khan1, Meeyoung Park1, Peter Grillo1

  • 1Diba Khan, Peter Grillo, and Sarah David are with the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Viruses Division (CORVID), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA. Meeyoung Park is with Situational Awareness Team, Division of Emergency Operations, Office of Readiness and Response, CDC, Atlanta. Lauren Rossen and Farida B. Ahmad are with National Center for Health Statistics, CDC, Hyattsville, MD. B. Casey Lyons is with Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch, Division of Overdose Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC, Atlanta. Mathew D. Ritchey and Adi V. Gundlapalli are with the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, CDC, Atlanta. A. D. McNaghten is with the Division of HIV Prevention, CDC, Atlanta. Amitabh B. Suthar is with the Clinical Surveillance and Epidemiology Team, Division of Global HIV and TB, Global Health Center, CDC, Atlanta.

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