Background: Excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with those expected
from historical trends have been unequally distributed, both geographically and …

Background Deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic result directly from infection and
exacerbation of other diseases and indirectly from deferment of care for other conditions …

The Covid-19 pandemic has claimed many lives in the UK and globally. The objective of this
paper is to study whether the number of deaths not registered as Covid-19-related has …

Background With the global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) there has
been disruption to normal clinical activity in response to the increased demand on health …

Background The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in France was associated with high
excess mortality, and anecdotal evidence pointed to differing excess mortality patterns …

Objective To measure the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 at the subnational
level by estimating excess mortality, defined as the increase in all-cause mortality relative to …

Background Mortality from COVID-19 shows a strong relationship with age and pre-existing
medical conditions, as does mortality from other causes. We aimed to investigate how …

Background Excess mortality captures the total effect of the Coronavirus Disease 2019
(COVID-19) pandemic on mortality and is not affected by misspecification of cause of death …

Background Mortality statistics are fundamental to public health decision making. Mortality
varies by time and location, and its measurement is affected by well known biases that have …

Background The numbers of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths per million
people differ widely across countries. Often, the causal effects of interventions taken by …