Estimates of excess mortality for the five Nordic countries during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020− 2021

KP Kepp, J Björk, V Kontis, RM Parks… - International Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic is of major scientific and
political interest. Methods We critically reviewed different estimates of all-cause excess …

Flaws and uncertainties in pandemic global excess death calculations

JPA Ioannidis, F Zonta, M Levitt - European journal of clinical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Several teams have been publishing global estimates of excess deaths during the COVID‐
19 pandemic. Here, we examine potential flaws and underappreciated sources of …

COVID mortality in India: National survey data and health facility deaths

P Jha, Y Deshmukh, C Tumbe, W Suraweera… - Science, 2022 - science.org
India's national COVID death totals remain undetermined. Using an independent nationally
representative survey of 0.14 million (M) adults, we compared COVID mortality during the …

Regional excess mortality during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in five European countries

G Konstantinoudis, M Cameletti… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on excess mortality from all causes in 2020 varied
across and within European countries. Using data for 2015–2019, we applied Bayesian …

Comparison of pandemic excess mortality in 2020–2021 across different empirical calculations

M Levitt, F Zonta, JPA Ioannidis - Environmental research, 2022 - Elsevier
Different modeling approaches can be used to calculate excess deaths for the COVID-19
pandemic period. We compared 6 calculations of excess deaths (4 previously published [3 …

Global and national declines in life expectancy: An end‐of‐2021 assessment

P Heuveline - Population and development review, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Timely, high‐quality mortality data have allowed for assessments of the impact of the novel
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) on life expectancies in upper‐middle‐and high …

Global estimates of excess deaths from COVID-19

E Acosta - 2023 - nature.com
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Historically high excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland, Sweden, and Spain

K Staub, R Panczak, KL Matthes, J Floris… - Annals of internal …, 2022 - acpjournals.org
Background: Excess mortality quantifies the overall mortality impact of a pandemic. Mortality
data have been accessible for many countries in recent decades, but few continuous data …

Variability in excess deaths across countries with different vulnerability during 2020–2023

JPA Ioannidis, F Zonta, M Levitt - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Excess deaths provide total impact estimates of major crises, such as the COVID-19
pandemic. We evaluated excess death trajectories across countries with accurate death …

Excess death estimates from multiverse analysis in 2009–2021

M Levitt, F Zonta, JPA Ioannidis - European Journal of Epidemiology, 2023 - Springer
Excess death estimates have great value in public health, but they can be sensitive to
analytical choices. Here we propose a multiverse analysis approach that considers all …