Estimating global and country-specific excess mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic Page
1 The Annals of Applied Statistics 2023, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1353–1374 https://doi.org/10.1214/22-AOAS1673 …

Estimating the mortality associated with a specific mortality crisis event (for example, a
pandemic, natural disaster, or conflict) is clearly an important public health undertaking. In …

Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic is characterized by successive waves that each
developed differently over time and through space. We aim to provide an in-depth analysis …

Background Despite the growing evidence of the extreme efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines in
adults and the elderly, the administration of the same prophylactic measures to pediatric …

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, health authorities worldwide periodically
report COVID-19 cases and deaths. These 'official'counts are aggregated primarily from data …

National authorities publish COVID-19 death counts, which are extensively re-circulated and
compared; but data are generally poorly sourced and documented. Academics and …

Objective To measure the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 at the subnational
level by estimating excess mortality, defined as the increase in all-cause mortality relative to …

This paper describes how an up-to-date national population register recording deaths by
age and sex, whether deaths were due to natural or unnatural causes, and the offices at …

From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, an unprecedented
international mobilization occurred within the scientific community to expand our knowledge …

Human travel fed the worldwide spread of COVID-19, but it remains unclear whether the
volume of incoming air passengers and the centrality of airports in the global airline network …