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In April 2020, the US unemployment rate peaked at 14.7%, its highest level since the Great Depression. A robust literature has shown that unemployment increases mortality.1 Unemployment may increase risk of mortality through multiple mechanisms, including elevated risk of suicide, substance abuse, health care deferment, and cardiovascular disease.2 This has resulted in recent calls to examine excess mortality resulting from unemployment driven by the COVID-19 pandemic.3 We used existing data to estimate the short-term mortality consequences of the epidemic of corollary illnesses3 likely to result from the COVID-19 recession. Our primary objectives were to (1) project the plausible range of excess deaths associated with the March and April 2020 incident unemployment attributable to COVID-19 (hereafter referred to as "COVID-19- related unemployment"), and (2) examine inequities in these estimates by age, race/ethnicity, gender, and educational attainment. This work has important implications for considering the full range of health consequences and health inequities linked to COVID-19