The Impact of COVID-19 on Mortality in Spain: Monitoring Excess Mortality (MoMo) and the Surveillance of Confirmed COVID-19 Deaths
| Autor: | Inmaculada León-Gómez, Concepción Delgado-Sanz, Luz Frías, Lorena Vega-Piris, Ayelén Rojas-Benedicto, Clara Mazagatos, Amparo Larrauri |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Adolescent Excess mortality Microbiology Article Young Adult Virology Pandemic Medicine Humans Child Pandemics excess mortality COVID-19 surveillance Aged Aged 80 and over Surveillance business.industry SARS-CoV-2 Mortality rate Public health Infant Newborn Infant Middle Aged QR1-502 Infectious Diseases Spain Child Preschool Epidemiological Monitoring Epidemiological surveillance Female Public Health business Demography |
| Zdroj: | Viruses Repisalud Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) Viruses, Vol 13, Iss 2423, p 2423 (2021) Viruses; Volume 13; Issue 12; Pages: 2423 |
| ISSN: | 1999-4915 |
| Popis: | Measuring mortality has been a challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we compared the results from the Spanish daily mortality surveillance system (MoMo) of excess mortality estimates, using a time series analysis, with those obtained for the confirmed COVID-19 deaths reported to the National Epidemiological Surveillance Network (RENAVE). The excess mortality estimated at the beginning of March 2020 was much greater than what has been observed in previous years, and clustered in a very short time. The cumulated excess mortality increased with age. In the first epidemic wave, the excess mortality estimated by MoMo was 1.5 times higher than the confirmed COVID-19 deaths reported to RENAVE, but both estimates were similar in the following pandemic waves. Estimated excess mortality and confirmed COVID-19 mortality rates were geographically distributed in a very heterogeneous way. The greatest increase in mortality that has taken place in Spain in recent years was detected early by MoMo, coinciding with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. MoMo is able to identify risk situations for public health in a timely manner, relying on mortality in general as an indirect indicator of various important public health problems. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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