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Project

Strengthening a Reliable Evidence Base for Monitoring the COVID-19 and Other Disasters

Dmitri A. Jdanov, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, Ainhoa Alustiza Galarza, Domantas Jasilionis, Inna Danilova, Karolin Kubisch

The project proposes a framework for monitoring short-term mortality fluctuations and the effectiveness of anti-epidemic measures. It relies on a transparent approach based on weekly excess deaths. The main outcome is a weekly and monthly mortality data series that is of high quality and comparable across time and space.  Detailed Description

Publications

Németh, L.; Jdanov, D. A.; Shkolnikov, V. M.:

An open-sourced, web-based application to analyze weekly excess mortality based on the Short-term Mortality Fluctuations data series

PLoS One 16:2, e0246663–e0246663. (2021)    

Danilova, I. A.:

Zabolevaemost' i smertnost' ot COVID-19: problema sopostavimosti dannych

Demographic Review 7:1, 6–26. (2020)    

Leon, D. A.; Jarvis, C. I.; Johnson, A. M.; Smeeth, L.; Shkolnikov, V. M.:

What can trends in hospital deaths from COVID-19 tell us about the progress and peak of the pandemic? An analysis of death counts from England announced up to 25 April 2020

medRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2020)