Yea-Hung Chen

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Epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Personal websitehttps://yea-hung.rbind.io
GitHubhttps://github.com/yea-hung
Yea-Hung ChenFeb 1, 2023
The Conversation U.S.Jan 29, 2023

“Explaining the discrepancy between excess deaths and reported COVID-19 deaths is a more challenging task. But several threads of evidence support the idea that the difference largely reflects uncounted COVID-19 deaths.”

Scientists explain the latest evidence of the true toll that #COVID19 has taken:

https://theconversation.com/covid-19-deaths-in-the-us-continue-to-be-undercounted-research-shows-despite-claims-of-overcounts-198266

#MedMastodon #Health #Covid

COVID-19 deaths in the US continue to be undercounted, research shows, despite claims of 'overcounts'

Taking into consideration the number of excess deaths caused by COVID-19 compared with pre-pandemic years is critical to getting an accurate accounting of the pandemic’s real toll.

The Conversation
Yea-Hung ChenJan 26, 2023
Elizabeth Wrigley-FieldJan 26, 2023

Belated #introduction

I'm a #demographer and #sociologist, focused on mortality in the US

Want to understand how I think about demographic modeling (and why I love it)? Read this interview:

https://sites.google.com/g.ucla.edu/asa-methodology/early-career-faculty-spotlight#h.8miqtq5hd6wd

Want to understand how I think about racism and mortality? Read this article or this interview:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014750117

https://rampantmag.com/2020/11/deadlier-than-a-pandemic/

Want to know about my favorite recent research?

https://fediscience.org/@wrigleyfield/109524336021688112

(non-work-centered stuff in the next post)

ASA Methodology - Early Career Faculty Spotlight

AUGUST 2021: LAURA K. NELSON Dr. Laura K. Nelson (she/her) is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia. She uses computational methods – principally text analysis, natural language processing, machine learning, and network analysis techniques – to study social

Yea-Hung ChenJan 26, 2023

A recent Washington Post opinion piece claimed that #covid deaths in the US are being overcounted. The cited evidence? Conversations with service providers from a handful of New England hospitals.

In this piece for @TheConversationUS, we examine the logic of that claim, and summarize research suggesting that COVID-19 deaths in the US are being undercounted, not overcounted.

https://theconversation.com/covid-19-deaths-in-the-us-continue-to-be-undercounted-research-shows-despite-claims-of-overcounts-198266

COVID-19 deaths in the US continue to be undercounted, research shows, despite claims of 'overcounts'

Taking into consideration the number of excess deaths caused by COVID-19 compared with pre-pandemic years is critical to getting an accurate accounting of the pandemic’s real toll.

The Conversation
Yea-Hung ChenJan 26, 2023
CPIPRJan 26, 2023

Despite claims of "overcounts," Covid-19 deaths have been undercounted in most U.S. counties. Population researchers can help explain the discrepancy.

https://theconversation.com/covid-19-deaths-in-the-us-continue-to-be-undercounted-research-shows-despite-claims-of-overcounts-198266

@wrigleyfield #NICHDImpact #Covid19

COVID-19 deaths in the US continue to be undercounted, research shows, despite claims of 'overcounts'

Taking into consideration the number of excess deaths caused by COVID-19 compared with pre-pandemic years is critical to getting an accurate accounting of the pandemic’s real toll.

The Conversation
Yea-Hung ChenJan 26, 2023
Jon LevyJan 26, 2023

RT @[email protected]

A recent @[email protected] opinion piece speculated that COVID-19 deaths are over-counted.

Our new @[email protected] article explains why this piece is flawed.

COVID-19 deaths are not overcounted; most evidence indicates they are undercounted.

Thread 1/6

https://theconversation.com/covid-19-deaths-in-the-us-continue-to-be-undercounted-research-shows-despite-claims-of-overcounts-198266

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/astokespop/status/1618273176827592705

COVID-19 deaths in the US continue to be undercounted, research shows, despite claims of 'overcounts'

Taking into consideration the number of excess deaths caused by COVID-19 compared with pre-pandemic years is critical to getting an accurate accounting of the pandemic’s real toll.

The Conversation
Yea-Hung ChenJan 25, 2023
Elizabeth Wrigley-FieldJan 25, 2023

Are #covid deaths now being over-counted?

Many different strands of research based on #ExcessMortality estimates -- by us and others -- suggests it's the opposite: we are still under-counting #Covid19 deaths in the United States.

Out today in @TheConversationUS:

https://theconversation.com/covid-19-deaths-in-the-us-continue-to-be-undercounted-research-shows-despite-claims-of-overcounts-198266

COVID-19 deaths in the US continue to be undercounted, research shows, despite claims of 'overcounts'

Taking into consideration the number of excess deaths caused by COVID-19 compared with pre-pandemic years is critical to getting an accurate accounting of the pandemic’s real toll.

The Conversation
Yea-Hung ChenJan 4, 2023
Great piece in USA Today highlighting research by Andrew Stokes and Rafeya Raquib at #busph on discrepancies between #excessmortality and #covid mortality across the US. Such discrepancies are possibly indicative of under-reporting of COVID mortality. The piece focuses on three settings: #Navajo Nation, #pdx, and #ruraltexas. https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/health/2022/12/28/uncounted-covid-deaths-disparities/10590932002/
The uncounted: People of color are dying at much higher rates than what COVID data suggests

The true toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on many communities of color is worse than previously known.

USA TODAY
Show threadYea-Hung ChenDec 30, 2022
@jeongpark52 Looking forward to it! I subscribe to the @losangelestimes in large part because it is, sadly, the only major paper in the US that covers simple immigrant stories like this. You and your colleagues are doing a fantastic job.
Yea-Hung ChenDec 26, 2022
Emily Alpert ReyesDec 26, 2022
Do you know someone who got hospital-acquired sepsis in California in recent years, or who has a loved one who got sepsis in the hospital? I'd like to talk to them. Please message me here or at [email protected].
Yea-Hung ChenDec 26, 2022

From NPR: "[China's] high threshold for determining whether a person died from #covid19... excludes anyone infected with #COVID who died but who also had preexisting health conditions"

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/25/1145472905/china-stops-publishing-daily-covid-data

China has stopped publishing daily COVID data amid reports of a huge spike in cases

China's National Health Commission said in a statement it would no longer publish daily data and that "from now on, the Chinese CDC will release relevant COVID information for reference and research."

NPR