1. Real-time monitoring shows substantial excess all-cause mortality during second wave of COVID-19 in Europe, October to December 2020
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Pasi Penttinen, Lukas Richter, Metka Zaletel, Neville Calleja, A. Fouillet, Natalia Bustos, Helmut Uphoff, Anna Páldy, Cornelia Adlhoch, Oskari Luomala, Damir Perisa, Daniela Schmid, Ana Paula Rodrigues, Tatjana Veideman, Christoph Junker, Liselotte van Asten, Lisa Domegan, Irene Kornilenko, Matteo Scortichini, Céline Caserio-Schönemann, Sarah K Nørgaard, Matthias an der Heiden, Kathleen England, Richard Pebody, Francesca De' Donato, Maria Athanasiadou, Gleb Denissov, Theodore Lytras, Mark G. O'Doherty, Toon Braye, Ahmed Farah, Mary Sinnathamby, Mario Fafangel, Amparo Larrauri, Lasse S Vestergaard, Jens Nielsen, Susana Silva, Kassiani Gkolfinopoulou, Petra Klepac, Tyra Grove Krause, Jim McMenamin, Kåre Mølbak, Telma Velez, David Irwin, Teemu Möttönen, Jukka Pukkila, Naama Rotem, Nick Bundle, Sharon Kennedy, N. Andrews, Ilias Galanis, János Bobvos, Patrick Hoffmann, Inmaculada León, Joan O'Donnell, Trine H. Paulsen, Richard A. White, Lenny Stoeldraijer, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
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Adult ,0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Letter ,Adolescent ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Epidemiology ,030106 microbiology ,all-cause mortality ,COVID-19 pandemic ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Computer Systems ,Cause of Death ,Virology ,Pandemic ,medicine ,Humans ,ddc:610 ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Mortality ,Child ,Aged ,Aged, 80 and over ,Excess mortality ,SARS-CoV-2 ,Public health ,public health ,Infant, Newborn ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,COVID-19 ,Infant ,Middle Aged ,Europe ,Geography ,Child, Preschool ,Epidemiological Monitoring ,610 Medizin und Gesundheit ,Rapid Communication ,EuroMOMO ,All cause mortality ,Demography - Abstract
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) global pandemic is ongoing, with Europe and the Americas the current epicentres of transmission. As at 1 January, 2021, over 82 million cases and 1.8 million deaths have been reported globally [1,2]. In Europe alone, the number of cases reported has now passed 26 million, with over 580,000 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 deaths [3,4]. As many COVID-19 cases and deaths may not be confirmed by virological testing, and as the pandemic causes a range of indirect and collateral harms, the officially reported figures of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths represent only a part of the total disease, mortality and overall public health burden associated with the pandemic. Here we report some noteworthy estimates of a marked increase in excess all-cause mortality in Europe coinciding with a steep second wave of COVID-19 in many countries since September 2020.
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