Excess mortality and the covid-19 pandemic: causes of death and social inequalities

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    The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed a serious and persistent threat to global public health and has brought unprecedented changes to daily life. Excess mortality, defined as the increase in deaths compared to the expected number of deaths, has been widely used as a representative indicator for the damage caused by the pandemic with respect to human health. The authors note that South Korea (hereafter termed Korea) has been evaluated as a country that has successfully responded to the pandemic with widespread testing and epidemiological investigations at the initial pandemic stage . . .

     

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