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Published on Feb 22, 2021DOI

Reviews of "Deaths of Despair and the Incidence of Excess Mortality in 2020"

Reviewers: 📕 ◻️◻️◻️◻️ • Rudi Rocha (FGV-EAESP) | 📗📗📗📗◻️ • Tom Vogl (UCSD) | 📕 ◻️◻️◻️◻️ • Nicholas Reynolds (University of Essex) | 📒📒📒◻️◻️

by Rudi Rocha, Tom Vogl, and Nicholas Reynolds
Published onFeb 22, 2021
Reviews of "Deaths of Despair and the Incidence of Excess Mortality in 2020"
key-enterThis Pub is a Review of
Deaths of Despair and the Incidence of Excess Mortality in 2020
by Casey Mulligan
  • Published on Dec 01, 2020
  • dx.doi.org

To read the original manuscript, click the link above.

Summary of Reviews: Reviewers disagree on this preprint. One finds a major methodological flaw that makes the conclusions unreliable; the other finds the analysis general but reliable, and suggests that the findings should engage other work on the mental health consequences of the pandemic.

Reviewer 1 | 📕 ◻️◻️◻️◻️

Reviewer 2 (Rudi Rocha) | 📗📗📗📗◻️

Reviewer 3 (Tom Vogl) | 📕 ◻️◻️◻️◻️

Reviewer 4 (Nicholas Reynolds) | 📒📒📒 ◻️◻️

RR:C19 Strength of Evidence Scale Key

📕 ◻️◻️◻️◻️ = Misleading

📙📙 ◻️◻️◻️ = Not Informative

📒📒📒 ◻️◻️ = Potentially Informative

📗📗📗📗◻️ = Reliable

📘📘📘📘📘 = Strong

To read the reviews, click the links below.

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A Supplement to this Pub
Review 1: "Deaths of Despair and the Incidence of Excess Mortality in 2020"
Review 1: "Deaths of Despair and the Incidence of Excess Mortality in 2020"
  • Published on Feb 22, 2021
  • rrid.mitpress.mit.edu
Description

Reviewers disagree on this preprint. One finds a major methodological flaw that makes the conclusions unreliable; the other finds the analysis general but reliable, and suggests that the findings should engage other work on the mental health consequences of the pandemic.

A Supplement to this Pub
Review 2: "Deaths of Despair and the Incidence of Excess Mortality in 2020"
Review 2: "Deaths of Despair and the Incidence of Excess Mortality in 2020"
by Rudi Rocha
  • Published on Feb 22, 2021
  • rrid.mitpress.mit.edu
Description

Reviewers disagree on this preprint. One finds a major methodological flaw that makes the conclusions unreliable; the other finds the analysis general but reliable, and suggests that the findings should engage other work on the mental health consequences of the pandemic.

A Supplement to this Pub
Review 3: "Deaths of Despair and the incidence of excess mortality in 2020"
Review 3: "Deaths of Despair and the incidence of excess mortality in 2020"
by Tom Vogl
  • Published on Apr 13, 2021
  • rrid.mitpress.mit.edu
Description

Reviewers find this preprint misleading; while the effects of COVID-mitigation strategies on excess mortality are important to understand, the evidence presented does not substantiate the claim that deaths of despair, in particular, have increased over the course of the pandemic.

A Supplement to this Pub
Review 4: "Deaths of Despair and the incidence of excess mortality in 2020"
Review 4: "Deaths of Despair and the incidence of excess mortality in 2020"
by Nicholas Reynolds
  • Published on Apr 13, 2021
  • rrid.mitpress.mit.edu
Description

Reviewers find this preprint misleading; while the effects of COVID-mitigation strategies on excess mortality are important to understand, the evidence presented does not substantiate the claim that deaths of despair, in particular, have increased over the course of the pandemic.

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