Direct and indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality in Switzerland

Julien Riou; Anthony Hauser; Anna Fesser; Christian L. Althaus; Matthias Egger; Garyfallos Konstantinoudis

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-35770-9

Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Direct and indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality in Switzerland

Julien Riou,
Anthony Hauser,
Anna Fesser,
Christian L. Althaus,
Matthias Egger,
Garyfallos Konstantinoudis

Affiliations

Julien Riou: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern
Anthony Hauser: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern
Anna Fesser: Federal Office of Public Health
Christian L. Althaus: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern
Matthias Egger: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern
Garyfallos Konstantinoudis: MRC Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35770-9
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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COVID-19-releated public health measures may have indirectly impacted mortality rates by causing or averting deaths. Here, the authors use data from Switzerland until April 2022 and estimate that, after accounting for deaths directly related to COVID-19, mortality was lower than expected, indicating some evidence of an overall positive impact of control measures.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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