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Objectives The first three months of the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted healthcare systems, creating an environment by which deaths have occurred that are not directly due to Covid-19, but have occurred due to the healthcare and societal environment resulting from Covid-19. The objective of this research is to quantify such excess deaths, partitioned by age group and gender. Study Design Data analysis. Methods Excess deaths by age and gender are estimated using provisional death data available from the CDC over the time period March 1, 2020 through May 30, 2020. Previous year fatality and population data are used as the benchmark. Results Several of the eighteen age and gender cohorts experienced statistically significant excess deaths. The results also indicate that for one of the age and gender cohorts, Covid-19 has been protective. Conclusions There have been more excess deaths in several age group and gender cohorts during the first three months of the pandemic, beyond direct deaths directly attributable to Covid-19. These Non-Covid excess deaths are most apparent in the 25 to 44 age group for females, and 15 to 54 age group for men. Further research is needed to assess the cause of such excess deaths, and introduce safeguards to reduce such deaths in the future.