Excess Mortality: the Gold Standard in Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 Worldwide?

Overview

Journal J R Soc Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2020 Sep 10

PMID 32910871

Citations 140

Authors

Thomas Beaney

Jonathan M Clarke

Vageesh Jain

Amelia Kataria Golestaneh

Gemma Lyons

David Salman

Azeem Majeed

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