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Excess Mortality Blog #9 Despite the challenges of limiting social interaction during the darker winter days, we have persevered. We are deep into another lockdown and the impacts are starting to be visible in the data, there has been a big drop the …

Excess Mortality - Blog #10 Has Donegal really been experiencing lower than average deaths during the pandemic? Our regularly published Excess Mortality post contains a table illustrating the estimated excess mortality rates by county since March 2020. …

Excess mortality blog post #11 A second consecutive month with a large drop in the number of deaths relative to the previous month is cause for celebration. Nonetheless, emerging anecdotal evidence from other countries that younger people are increasingly …

Excess Mortality - Blog #5 On 3 September, we hosted a panel discussion on excess mortality including Jon Flanagan from the CSO, Dr Gerard McCarthy from Maynooth University, Andrew Smith from University College Dublin and John Nolan from the Society’s …

Excess Mortality - Blog #6 With winter setting in and “lockdown 2” being eased for the festive season, we expect to see an increasing number of COVID-19 cases over the coming weeks. Now is a good time to look at where we are and how things have changed …