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Preliminary Estimate of Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Outbreak — New York City, March 11–May 2, 2020
On May 11, 2020, this report was posted online as an MMWR Early Release.New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) COVID-19 Response Team (View author affiliations)Views equals page views plus PDF downloadsSARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has since spread worldwide. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic (1).