TY - JOUR
AU - Nørgaard, Sarah K. 
AU - Nielsen, Jens
AU - Nordholm, Anne Christine
AU - Richter, Lukas
AU - Chalupka, Alena
AU - Sierra, Natalia Bustos
AU - Braeye, Toon
AU - Athanasiadou, Maria
AU - Lytras, Theodore
AU - Denissov, Gleb
AU - Luomala, Oskari
AU - Fouillet, Anne
AU - Pontais, Isabelle
AU - an der Heiden, Matthias
AU - Zacher, Benedikt
AU - Weigel, Alina
AU - Foppa, Ivo
AU - Gkolfinopoulou, Kassiani
AU - Panagoulias, Ioannis
AU - Paldy, Anna
AU - Malnasi, Tibor
AU - Domegan, Lisa
AU - Kelly, Eva
AU - Rotem, Naama
AU - Rakhlin, Oksana
AU - de'Donato, Francesca K.
AU - Di Blasi, Chiara
AU - Hoffmann, Patrick
AU - Velez, Telma
AU - England, Kathleen
AU - Calleja, Neville
AU - van Asten, Liselotte
AU - Jongenotter, Femke
AU - Rodrigues, Ana Paula
AU - da Silva, Susana P.
AU - Klepac, Petra
AU - Gomez-Barroso, Diana
AU - Gomez, Inmaculada Leon
AU - Galanis, Ilias
AU - Farah, Ahmed
AU - Weitkunat, Rolf
AU - Fehst, Katarina
AU - Andrews, Nick
AU - Clare, Tom
AU - Bradley, Declan T.
AU - O'Doherty, Mark
AU - William, Naoma
AU - Hamilton, Mark
AU - Søborg, Bolette
AU - Krause, Tyra G.
AU - Bundle, Nick
AU - Vestergaard, Lasse S.
PY - 2024
DA - April
TI - Excess mortality in Europe coincides with peaks of COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), November 2023 to February 2024
JO - Eurosurveillance
VL - 29
IS - 15
DO - https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.15.2400178
AB - Excess mortality has typically been observed during the winter season in Europe, coinciding with epidemics of seasonal influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and other respiratory infections. However, this typical seasonal pattern was largely disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020 to 2022. Several periods of excess mortality were observed ‘out of season’ and related to consecutive waves of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causing COVID-19, while common respiratory infections were absent because of implementation of non-pharmacological interventions (NPIs). When NPIs were gradually lifted, respiratory infections returned, though displaying some atypical seasonality during 2021 and 2022. In the winter season of 2023/24, excess mortality was again observed in Europe. Here, we present pooled estimates of excess all-cause mortality together with estimates of test positivity of COVID-19, influenza and RSV across 25 countries or subnational areas in the European Mortality Monitoring Network (EuroMOMO).
PB - European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
UR - https://publichealthscotland.scot/id/172920
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
ER