Eurosurv. Excess all-cause mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe – preliminary pooled estimates from the EuroMOMO network, March to April 2020

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• Excess all-cause mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe – preliminary pooled estimates from the EuroMOMO network, March to April 2020
• Lasse S Vestergaard¹ , Jens Nielsen¹ , Lukas Richter² , Daniela Schmid² , Natalia Bustos³ , Toon Braeye³ , Gleb Denissov⁴ , Tatjana Veideman⁴ , Oskari Luomala⁵ , Teemu M?tt?nen⁵ , Anne Fouillet⁶ , C?line Caserio-Sch?nemann⁶ , Matthias an der Heiden⁷ , Helmut Uphoff⁸ , Theodore Lytras⁹ , Kassiani Gkolfinopoulou⁹ , Anna Paldy¹⁰ , Lisa Domegan^11,12 , Joan O'Donnell¹¹ , Francesca de’ Donato¹³ , Fiammetta Noccioli¹³ , Patrick Hoffmann¹⁴ , Telma Velez¹⁴ , Kathleen England¹⁵ , Liselotte van Asten¹⁶ , Richard A White¹⁷ , Ragnhild T?nnessen¹⁷ , Susana P da Silva¹⁸ , Ana P Rodrigues¹⁸ , Amparo Larrauri¹⁹ , Concepci?n Delgado-Sanz¹⁹ , Ahmed Farah²⁰ , Ilias Galanis²⁰ , Christoph Junker²¹ , Damir Perisa²² , Mary Sinnathamby²³ , Nick Andrews²³ , Mark O'Doherty²⁴ , Diogo FP Marquess²⁵ , Sharon Kennedy²⁵ , Sonja J Olsen²⁶ , Richard Pebody²⁶ , ECDC Public Health Emergency Team for COVID-19²⁷ , Tyra G Krause¹ , K?re M?lbak^1,28

A remarkable excess mortality has coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. We present preliminary pooled estimates of all-cause mortality for 24 European countries/federal states participating in the European monitoring of excess mortality for public health action (EuroMOMO) network, for the period March–April 2020. Excess mortality particularly affected  ≥ 65 year olds (91% of all excess deaths), but also 45–64 (8%) and 15–44 year olds (1%). No excess mortality was observed in 0–14 year olds.

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https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.26.2001214