Excess all-cause mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe – preliminary pooled estimates from the EuroMOMO network, March to April 2020
Lasse S Vestergaard, Jens Nielsen, Lukáš Richter, Daniela Schmid, Natalia Bustos, Toon Braeye, Gleb Denissov, Tatjana Veideman, Oskari Luomala, Teemu Möttönen, Anne Fouillet, Céline Caserio‐Schönemann, Matthias an der Heiden, Helmut Uphoff, Theodore Lytras, Kassiani Gkolfinopoulou, Anna Páldy, Lisa Domegan, Joan O’Donnell, Francesca De’ Donato, Fiammetta Noccioli, P. Hoffmann, Telma Velez, Kathleen England, Liselotte van Asten, Richard White, Ragnhild Tønnessen, Susana Pereira Silva, Ana Paula Rodrigues, Amparo Larrauri, Concepción Delgado‐Sanz, Farah Ahmed, Ilias Galanis, Christoph Junker, Damir Perisa, Mary Sinnathamby, Nick Andrews, Mark G. O’Doherty, Diogo Marques, Sharon Kennedy, Sonja J. Olsen, Richard Pebody, ECDC Public Health Emergency Team for COVID-19, Tyra Grove Krause, Kåre Mølbak
Abstract
A remarkable excess mortality has coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. We present preliminary pooled estimates of all-cause mortality for 24 European countries/federal states participating in the European monitoring of excess mortality for public health action (EuroMOMO) network, for the period March-April 2020. Excess mortality particularly affected ≥ 65 year olds (91% of all excess deaths), but also 45-64 (8%) and 15-44 year olds (1%). No excess mortality was observed in 0-14 year olds.