[PDF][PDF] The impact of COVID-19 on health and care workers: a closer look at deaths

World Health Organization - 2021 - apps.who.int
Background On 30 January 2020, the Director-General of the World Health Organization
(WHO) declared the outbreak of disease due to a novel coronavirus a public health …

Excess mortality in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic: assessing the differences between the first and the second wave, year 2020

M Dorrucci, G Minelli, S Boros, V Manno… - Frontiers in public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
COVID-19 dramatically influenced mortality worldwide, in Italy as well, the first European
country to experience the Sars-Cov2 epidemic. Many countries reported a two-wave pattern …

Excess all-cause mortality in the USA and Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 and 2021

LM Rossen, SK Nørgaard, PD Sutton, TG Krause… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Both the USA and Europe experienced substantial excess mortality in 2020 and 2021
related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods used to estimate excess mortality vary, making …

COVID-19 in long-term care: Impact, policy responses and challenges

E Rocard, P Sillitti, A Llena-Nozal - 2021 - oecd-ilibrary.org
The COVID-19 crisis has hit the long-term care (LTC) sector particularly hard, with large
numbers of people dependent on care and particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 have fallen …

Variation in cause-specific mortality rates in Italy during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a study based on nationwide data

E Grande, U Fedeli, M Pappagallo, R Crialesi… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Italy was a country severely hit by the first coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
wave in early 2020. Mortality studies have focused on the overall excess mortality observed …

[HTML][HTML] Excess mortality in Russia and its regions compared to high income countries: an analysis of monthly series of 2020

S Timonin, I Klimkin, VM Shkolnikov, E Andreev… - SSM-population …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Russia has been portrayed in media as having one of the highest death tolls
due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the world. However, the precise scale of excess mortality …

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and policy responses on excess mortality

V Agrawal, JH Cantor, N Sood, CM Whaley - 2021 - nber.org
As a way of slowing COVID-19 transmission, many countries and US states implemented
shelter-in-place (SIP) policies. However, the effects of SIP policies on public health are a …

Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel, March–November 2020: when, where, and for whom?

Z Haklai, M Aburbeh, N Goldberger… - Israel Journal of Health …, 2021 - Springer
Background Excess all-cause mortality has been used in many countries as an estimate of
mortality effects from COVID-19. What was the excess mortality in Israel in 2020 and when …

Where did it hit harder? Understanding the geography of excess mortality during the COVID‐19 pandemic

M Díaz Ramírez, P Veneri… - Journal of Regional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The health impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic across OECD (Organisation for Economic Co‐
operation and Development) and European regions has been strikingly uneven. In 2020 …

Short-term forecasts of expected deaths

S Rizzi, JW Vaupel - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
We introduce a method for making short-term mortality forecasts of a few months, illustrating
it by estimating how many deaths might have happened if some major shock had not …