2020
DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.28.20083147
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Abstract: INTRODUCTIONThe COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing event disrupting lives, health systems, and economies worldwide. Clear data about the pandemic's impact is lacking, namely regarding mortality. This work aims to study the impact of COVID-19 through the analysis of all-cause mortality data made available by different European countries, and to critique their mortality surveillance data. METHODS European countries that had publicly available data about the number of deaths per day/week were selected (England and W… Show more

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“…A search was also performed on Google on May 20, 2020, using the same strategy, rendering a list of 7,020,000 items and sites with relevant information. The first 15 items reported the most consulted information on the matter and were more targeted on the issue of mortality gender differences in patients with COVID-19 [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. This procedure has been previously validated to obtain relevant medical information through Google [24].…”
Section: Search Strategiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A search was also performed on Google on May 20, 2020, using the same strategy, rendering a list of 7,020,000 items and sites with relevant information. The first 15 items reported the most consulted information on the matter and were more targeted on the issue of mortality gender differences in patients with COVID-19 [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. This procedure has been previously validated to obtain relevant medical information through Google [24].…”
Section: Search Strategiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…in the UK, England and Wales have consistently reported data on daily deaths based on different time of recording in comparison to Scotland and Northern Ireland [1]). In this context, estimating excess deaths for all causes at national level, with respect to past year trends has been used in several countries as an effective way to evaluate the total burden of the COVID-19 pandemic [2][3][4][5][6], including direct COVID-19-related, as well as indirect effects (e.g. people not being able to access healthcare).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“… 10 As an alternative risk difference of disease impact, excess numbers of deaths has been reported for some populations, that is, the number of observed all-cause deaths during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic (end of February to mid-May 2020 in most European countries) minus the expected number of deaths in the given population. Reports on the number of excess deaths observed since the onset of the pandemic are available from Portugal, 11 Spain, 12 northern Italy, 13 14 various other European countries 15 and the USA. 16 However, cross-country comparisons are again difficult, because the success or failure of public health interventions and possible overruns of hospital capacities will be reflected in the presence and magnitude of excess mortality.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%