Epidemiological Objectives
- To investigate differences in all-cause and cause-specific mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic and over the same months in the previous 5 years, in selected countries.
- To determine the causes for any net differences in total mortality between the current pandemic period and the same period in previous years, in selected countries.
- To investigate possible underreporting of COVID-19 mortality in selected countries and apply a common way of counting deaths.
- To determine premature mortality as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in selected countries.
- To investigate the long-term mortality burden of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the impact of potential subsequent epidemic waves in selected countries.
