Estimating Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic Between 2020-2022 in Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The persistent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had direct and indirect effects on mortality, making it essential to analyze excess mortality to fully understand the impact of the pandemic. In this study, we constructed a mathematical model using number of deaths from Statistics Korea and analyzed excess mortality between 2020 and 2022 according to age, sex, and dominant severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 variant period.

Methods

Number of all-cause deaths between 2010 and 2022 were obtained from the annual cause-of-death statistics provided by Statistics Korea. COVID-19 mortality data were acquired from the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency. A multivariate linear regression model with seasonal effect, stratified by sex and ag

SUBMITTER: Jang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11496562 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature