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% Excess mortality papers:
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% Gender specific excess mortality in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic accounting for age.
% Gianicolo EAL, Russo A, Büchler B, Taylor K, Stang A, Blettner M.
% Eur J Epidemiol. 2021 Jan 25:1-6

% Patterns of COVID-19 related excess mortality in the municipalities of Northern Italy during the first wave of the pandemic.
% Gibertoni D, Adja KYC, Golinelli D, Reno C, Regazzi L, Lenzi J, Sanmarchi F, Fantini MP.
% Health Place. 2021 Jan 11;67:102508.

% Real-time monitoring shows substantial excess all-cause mortality during second wave of COVID-19 in Europe, October to December 2020.
% Nørgaard SK, Vestergaard LS, Nielsen J, Richter L, Schmid D, Bustos N, Braye T, Athanasiadou M, Lytras T, Denissov G, Veideman T, Luomala O, Möttönen T, Fouillet A, Caserio-Schönemann C, An der Heiden M, Uphoff H, Gkolfinopoulou K, Bobvos J, Paldy A, Rotem N, Kornilenko I, Domegan L, O'Donnell J, Donato F, Scortichini M, Hoffmann P, Velez T, England K, Calleja N, van Asten L, Stoeldraijer L, White RA, Paulsen TH, da Silva SP, Rodrigues AP, Klepac P, Zaletel M, Fafangel M, Larrauri A, León I, Farah A, Galanis I, Junker C, Perisa D, Sinnathamby M, Andrews N, O'Doherty MG, Irwin D, Kennedy S, McMenamin J, Adlhoch C, Bundle N, Penttinen P, Pukkila J, Pebody R, Krause TG, Mølbak K.
% Euro Surveill. 2021 Jan;26(2):2002023

% A municipality-level analysis of excess mortality in Italy in the period January-April 2020.
% Biggeri A, Lagazio C, Catelan D, Barbone F, Braga M.
% Epidemiol Prev. 2020 Sep-Dec;44(5-6 Suppl 2):297-306.

% Classification of weekly provincial overall age- and gender-specific mortality patterns during the COVID-19 epidemics in Italy.
% Kejžar N, Lusa L.
% Epidemiol Prev. 2020 Sep-Dec;44(5-6 Suppl 2):271-281.

% Effects of COVID-19 on mortality: A 5-year population-based study in Oman.
% Al Wahaibi A, Al-Maani A, Alyaquobi F, Al Harthy K, Al-Jardani A, Al Rawahi B, Al-Abri S.
% Int J Infect Dis. 2020 Dec 23;104:102-107

% Measuring the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in Ecuador using preliminary estimates of excess mortality, March 17-October 22, 2020.
% Cevallos-Valdiviezo H, Vergara-Montesdeoca A, Zambrano-Zambrano G.
% Int J Infect Dis. 2020 Dec 19;104:297-299.

% Excess Mortality in California During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic, March to August 2020.
% Chen YH, Glymour MM, Catalano R, Fernandez A, Nguyen T, Kushel M, Bibbins-Domingo K.
% JAMA Intern Med. 2020 Dec 21:e207578.

% All-Cause Excess Mortality and COVID-19-Related Mortality Among US Adults Aged 25-44 Years, March-July 2020.
% Faust JS, Krumholz HM, Du C, Mayes KD, Lin Z, Gilman C, Walensky RP.
% JAMA. 2020 Dec 16:e2024243.

% COVID-19 in Brazil: 150,000 deaths and the Brazilian underreporting.
% Carvalho TA, Boschiero MN, Marson FAL.
% Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2020 Oct 21;99(3):115258.

% Excess mortality in the first COVID pandemic peak: cross-sectional analyses of the impact of age, sex, ethnicity, household size, and long-term conditions in people of known SARS-CoV-2 status in England.
% Joy M, Hobbs FR, Bernal JL, Sherlock J, Amirthalingam G, McGagh D, Akinyemi O, Byford R, Dabrera G, Dorward J, Ellis J, Ferreira F, Jones N, Oke J, Okusi C, Nicholson BD, Ramsay M, % Sheppard JP, Sinnathamby M, Zambon M, Howsam G, Williams J, de Lusignan S.
% Br J Gen Pract. 2020 Nov 26;70(701):e890-e898.

% COVID-19 and Excess All-Cause Mortality in the US and 18 Comparison Countries.
% Bilinski A, Emanuel EJ.
% JAMA. 2020 Nov 24;324(20):2100-2102

% Mortality from COVID in Colombia and Peru: Analyses of Mortality Data and Statistical Forecasts
% Patrick E Brown, Zoë R Greenwald, Luis Ernesto Salinas, Gabriel Aguirre Martens, Leslie Newcombe, Hellen Gelband, Jeremy Veillard, Prabhat Jha
% medRxiv 2020.08.24.20181016;

% Excess mortality during the first ten months of COVID-19 epidemic at Jakarta, Indonesia
% Iqbal RF Elyazar, Henry Surendra, Lenny L Ekawati, Bimandra A. Djaafara, Ahmad Nurhasim, Ahmad Arif, Irma Hidayana, Widyastuti, Dwi Oktavia, Verry Adrian, Ngabila Salama, Imam Hamdi, Adhi Andrianto, Rosa N Lina, Karin D Lestari, Anuraj H Shankar, Raph L Hamers, Guy Thwaites, J. Kevin Baird
% medRxiv 2020.12.14.20248159

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