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. 2020 Jul;25(26):2001214.
doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.26.2001214.

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

Lasse S Vestergaard  1 , Jens Nielsen  1 , Lukas Richter  2 , Daniela Schmid  2 , Natalia Bustos  3 , Toon Braeye  3 , Gleb Denissov  4 , Tatjana Veideman  4 , Oskari Luomala  5 , Teemu Möttönen  5 , Anne Fouillet  6 , Céline Caserio-Schönemann  6 , Matthias An der Heiden  7 , Helmut Uphoff  8 , Theodore Lytras  9 , Kassiani Gkolfinopoulou  9 , Anna Paldy  10 , Lisa Domegan  11   12 , Joan O'Donnell  11 , Francesca De' Donato  13 , Fiammetta Noccioli  13 , Patrick Hoffmann  14 , Telma Velez  14 , Kathleen England  15 , Liselotte van Asten  16 , Richard A White  17 , Ragnhild Tønnessen  17 , Susana P da Silva  18 , Ana P Rodrigues  18 , Amparo Larrauri  19 , Concepción Delgado-Sanz  19 , Ahmed Farah  20 , Ilias Galanis  20 , Christoph Junker  21 , Damir Perisa  22 , Mary Sinnathamby  23 , Nick Andrews  23 , Mark O'Doherty  24 , Diogo Fp Marquess  25 , Sharon Kennedy  25 , Sonja J Olsen  26 , Richard Pebody  26 ; ECDC Public Health Emergency Team for COVID-19  27 ; Tyra G Krause  1 , Kåre Mølbak  1   28
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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 Vestergaard et al. Euro Surveill. 2020 Jul.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: All-cause mortality; Covid-19 pandemic; EuroMOMO; Europe.

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Conflict of interest: None declared.

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Figure 1
EuroMOMO pooled estimates of all-cause mortality shown for all ages combined and by age group, week 1/2016−week 18/2020
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Figure 2
EuroMOMO pooled estimates of excessa all-cause mortality shown combined for all ages and by age group, from week 1 to week 18 for year 2020, and week 1 to week 52 for the years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, respectively
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