Excess Mortality on Italian Small Islands during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: An Ecological Study

• Main Authors: Matteo Riccò (Author), Pietro Ferraro (Author), Simona Peruzzi (Author), Alessandro Zaniboni (Author), Elia Satta (Author), Silvia Ranzieri (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Small islands have been considered at an advantage when dealing with infectious diseases, including COVID-19, but the evidence is still lacking. Crude mortality rates (CMRs) and excess mortality rates (EMRs) were calculated for 35 municipalities on the Italian small islands for 2020 and 2021, and th...