"Environ le tiers des Québécois à qui on a attribué la cause du décès à la COVID-19 lors de la première vague seraient très probablement morts d’autres causes dans les semaines suivantes"
(Key points in English below.)
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(Key points in English below.)
lapresse.ca/covid-19/2020-…
About a third of Quebeckers for whom their cause of death was attributed to covid-19 in the first wave would most likely have died from other causes in the following weeks, suggests a newly published demographic study by two HEC Montreal researchers.
Quebec has seen excess mortality between March and June: about 4,300 more deaths than usual for that period.
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The data nevertheless shows 570 fewer than normal deaths linked to cancer and 280 fewer deaths than normal linked to heart disease.
Even if few autopsies were conducted and if there were other underlying causes of death, attributing these deaths to covid-19 corresponds to rules set out by the WHO.
The excess mortality in March-June was particularly marked in Quebec's CHSLD facilities (long-term care), which was 2.5 times the normal level. In B.C., in contrast, it was 60% higher than normal for the period and quickly subsided after measures were introduced.
Merci à @jhamel.
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