NEW YORK, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- A total of 4,511 U.S. physicians died during the early phase of COVID-19 -- 622 more deaths than would have occurred had the pandemic not happened, according to a research letter published in JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) Internal Medicine.
Excess physician deaths peaked at 70 in December 2020 among all active physicians, followed by a rapid drop in 2021 when safe and effective vaccines became available, said a report published on the American Medical Association (AMA) website this week, citing the study "Excess Mortality Among Physicians During The COVID-19 Pandemic."
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