Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on total, sex- and age-specific all-cause mortality in 20 countries worldwide during 2020: results from the C-MOR project.
Christiana A DemetriouSouzana AchilleosAnnalisa QuattrocchiJohn GabelElena CritselisConstantina ConstantinouNicoletta NicolaouGiuseppe AmbrosioCatherine M BennettNolwenn Le MeurJulia A CritchleyLaust Hvas MortensenJose Manuel Rodriguez-LlanesMario ChongGleb DenissovPetra KlepacLucy P GoldsmithAntonio José Leal CostaTerje P HagenMarie Chan SunQian HuangNataliia PidmurniakInbar ZuckerJoseph CuthbertsonBo BurströmManuel BarronIvan ErženFabrizio StracciWilson CalmonCyndy MartialOlesia VerstiukZalman KaufmanWenjing TaoMaia KereselidzeNino ChikhladzeAntonis PolemitisAndreas CharalambousPublished in: International journal of epidemiology (2022)
This study highlights that excess all-cause mortality during 2020 is context dependent, with specific countries, sex- and age-groups being most affected. As the pandemic continues, tracking excess mortality is important to accurately estimate the true toll of COVID-19, while at the same time investigating the effects of changing contexts, different variants, testing, quarantine, and vaccination strategies.