Cause-Specific Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-2021) in 12 Countries of the C-MOR Consortium

• Main Authors: Victoria Virginia Beeks (Author), Souzana Achilleos (Author), Annalisa Quattrocchi (Author), Chryso Th. Pallari (Author), Elena Critselis (Author), Pascale Salameh (Author), Mohammad Reza Rahmanian Haghighi (Author), Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Llanes (Author), Giuseppe Ambrosio (Author), Andreas Artemiou (Author), John Gabel (Author), Catherine Marie Bennett (Author), Joseph Cuthbertson (Author), Claudia Zimmermann (Author), Eva Susanna Schernhammer (Author), Antonio José Leal Costa (Author), Luciana Freire de Carvalho (Author), Jackeline Christiane Pinto Lobato (Author), Maria Athanasiadou (Author), Julia Alison Critchley (Author), Lucy Pollyanna Goldsmith (Author), Levan Kandelaki (Author), Natalya Glushkova (Author), Kairat Davletov (Author), Yuliya Semenova (Author), Ivan Erzen (Author), Olesia Verstiuk (Author), Dimos Alekkou (Author), Antonis Polemitis (Author), Andreas Charalambous (Author), Christiana A. Demetriou (Author), The C-MOR Consortium (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Springer, 2024-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background This study investigated cause-specific mortality rates in 12 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. Methods We collected weekly cause-specific mortality data from respiratory disease, pneumonia, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer from national vital statist...