Assessing Excess Mortality of Baby Boomers from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Taiwan Omicron-naive Cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Asia's elderly Baby Boomer demographic (born between 1946 and 1964) faced a huge problem during the COVID-19 pandemic due to increased all-cause mortality. We aimed to provide a unique Taiwan situation regarding the impact of Baby Boomers on excess mortalities from all causes relative to non-Baby Boomers throughout distinct times of SARS-CoV-2 mutations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

We used the Poisson time series design with a Bayesian directed acyclic graphic approach to build the background mortality prior to the COVID-19 pandemic between 2015 and 2019. It was then used for predicting the expected all-cause deaths compared to the reported figures during the COVID-19 pandemic period based on Taiwan residents, an Omicron-naïve cohort.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Lin TY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11444035 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature