More On Excess Deaths From The COVID-19 Pandemic
Keywords:
COVID-19, pandemic, excess deaths, mortality.Abstract
Introduction: In the last weeks of 2022, new information appears about the excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 in multiple nations.
Objective: To comment on the aspects of greatest interest in those cited documents.
Methods: Analysis of documents on COVID-19 was conducted on those published in 2020 and 2021 and synthesis of the information collected.
Results: A major WHO study estimates an excess of deaths of 14.83 (13.23 ± 16.58) million more than expected worldwide, during 2020 and 2021. These estimates are more conservative than those of other institutions that estimated between 16 and 18.2 million. The WHO report estimates that four out of five countries with the highest excess deaths occur in “middle-income” states, with some of the worst outcomes in Latin America. Cuba is not included. What happened during 2022, which is already ending, has not yet been documented.
Conclusions: It is considered that monitoring of the evolution of mortality figures and the structure by causes of death in populations should be maintained in the future.
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