Leading causes of excess mortality in Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2021: A death certificates study in a middle-income country

• Main Authors: Lina Sofía Palacio-Mejía (Author), Juan Eugenio Hernández-Ávila (Author), Mauricio Hernández-Ávila (Author), Dwight Dyer-Leal (Author), Arturo Barranco (Author), Amado D. Quezada-Sánchez (Author), Mariana Alvarez-Aceves (Author), Ricardo Cortés-Alcalá (Author), Jorge Leonel Fernández- Wheatley (Author), Iliana Ordoñez-Hernández (Author), Edgar Vielma-Orozco (Author), María de la Cruz Muradás-Troitiño (Author), Omar Muro-Orozco (Author), Enrique Navarro-Luévano (Author), Kathia Rodriguez-González (Author), Jean Marc Gabastou (Author), Ruy López-Ridaura (Author), Hugo López-Gatell (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: The death toll after SARS-CoV-2 emergence includes deaths directly or indirectly associated with COVID-19. Mexico reported 325,415 excess deaths, 34.4% of them not directly related to COVID-19 in 2020. In this work, we aimed to analyse temporal changes in the distribution of the...