Impact of neighborhood-level COVID-19 mortality on the increase in drug overdose mortality in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Main Authors: Wuraola Olawole (Author), Guohua Li (Author), Ziqi Zhou (Author), Zhixing Wu (Author), Qixuan Chen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Overdose mortality increased substantially during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it is unclear to what extent the COVID-19 mortality had contributed to this increase at the neighborhood level. Methods This was an ecological study based on New York City United Hospital Fund (NYC UHF)...