In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers struggled to grasp the rate of the virus’s spread and the number of ...

CBS uses the term excess mortality when the number of deaths actually recorded is higher than the expected number for the same period. The expected number of deaths (without the coronavirus pandemic) ...

As the world marks the fifth anniversary of the start of the coronavirus pandemic, one question has persisted: How many lives ...

Five times as many Australians are dying from Covid-19 than influenza five years after the outbreak of the global pandemic, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a staggering 16.8 million person-years of life lost across 18 European countries, with nearly 60 ...

Women have a survival advantage over men, and we see an increase in the gap between male and female survival. Why did this male excess mortality emerge and grow over time? For a given age, adult men ...

A documentary on the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents denied hospital care in Spain's Madrid region ...

Non-optimal temperatures are now considered among the leading risk factors of mortality worldwide.1 A global analysis showed ...

However, Australia’s excess mortality was far less severe than international counterparts that employed more relaxed or indecisive disease control strategies. Excess mortality tracks the ...

Among Black infants, the mortality rate increased by 10.98% (11.81 observed vs. 10.66 expected per 1,000 live births), with an absolute increase of 1.15 per 1,000, resulting in 265 excess deaths.

First, at a baseline (early in the 21 st century) we are examining associations between extreme heat events and excess mortality in cities, and how air pollution and greenspaces may modify these ...