Will Survivors of the First Year of the Pandemic Have Lower Mortality?

The brief’s key findings are:

• In the first year of the pandemic, 300,000 Americans ages 60+ died from COVID, with the oldest and least healthy at greater risk.
• The question here is, since those who died tended to be more vulnerable, to what extent will the survivors have lower mortality rates?
• The analysis estimates that mortality did decline, but only slightly.
• This impact is small because the number of COVID deaths, though a terrible toll, is not large relative to the overall population.