European Journal of Public Health • Vol 34 • No 3
Regional excess mortality in France during COVID-19 pandemic: the first three epidemic periods (March 2020–June 2021)
February 2024 • Marlène Faisant, Nicolas Vincent, Bruno Hubert, Alain Le Tertre
Abstract Background This study aimed to describe the mortality excess during the three first epidemic periods of COVID-19 in all regions of France. Methods Two complementary approaches were implemented. First, we described the number of death of patients infected with or diagnosed with COVID-19 in health care (HC) and medico-social (MS) institutions. Then, we estimated general all-cause mortality excess (all ages) by comparing the mortality observed with the expected mortality. We used a daily number of death mode…