Assessing relative COVID-19 mortality: a Swiss population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Severity of the COVID-19 has been previously reported in terms of absolute mortality in SARS-CoV-2 positive cohorts. An assessment of mortality relative to mortality in the general population is presented.

Design

Retrospective population-based study.

Setting

Individual information on symptomatic confirmed SARS-CoV-2 patients and subsequent deaths from any cause were compared with the all-cause mortality in the Swiss population of 2018. Starting 23 February 2020, mortality in COVID-19 patients was monitored for 80 days and compared with the population mortality observed in the same time of year starting 23 February 2018.

Participants

5 102 300 inhabitants of Switzerland aged 35-95 without COVID-19 (general population in spring 2018) and 20 769 persons

SUBMITTER: Hothorn T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7941676 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature