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Editorial
. 2022 Feb 4:376:o285.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.o285.

"Excess deaths" is the best metric for tracking the pandemic

Nazrul Islam  1
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Editorial

"Excess deaths" is the best metric for tracking the pandemic

Nazrul Islam. BMJ. .
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Competing interests: I have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare I sit on the WHO and UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs technical advisory group on covid-19 mortality assessment. Provenance and peer review: Commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.

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