Our paper on @WHO excess mortality associated with Covid-19 now on @Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Please read it and the associated coverage, we aimed to make it as sound and widely understandable as possible.
some important highlights:
#poptwitter #epitwitter #econtwitter
It's often argued that in the absence of all-cause-mortality data to directly estimate excess deaths, we should rely on the officially reported covid-19 data. This is false, as we explain here
It is high time that countries, regions and the world report all-cause-mortality in (as close to) real time as possible.
This will help prevent future outbreaks from evolving to an epidemic and then a pandemic.
Vital Registration is VITAL.
I would like to thank the many health-workers faced with this pandemic.
My co-authors for an extremely rigorous and thoughtful research.
Our data sources from @EU_Eurostat @HMDatabase #WorldMortality @the_hindu and others.
The Expert Group that advised this research (who.int/data/technical…) and the many new friends and colleagues that I was fortunate to meet and work with (mostly virtually...).
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