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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 #12 Different approaches to measuring excess mortality As we pass the one-year anniversary since the first deaths relating to Covid-19 in Ireland we have all sadly become accustomed to hearing the daily updates on the latest case …

Excess mortality - Blog post #13 The data suggests that we have returned to “normal” levels of deaths in Ireland but we saw the same indicators last summer only to be followed by the second/third wave. It is important that we learn from this experience …

Excess mortality - Blog post #14 Now that we’re into the second year of our battle with COVID-19, we thought it would be interesting to revisit the question of the presence of any gender bias in the deaths caused by the virus in Ireland. During the first …

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 post #16 As Ireland looks to lift the last of its restrictions and move into, hopefully, a post-pandemic phase, it is important to remember that while the pandemic may be ending in much of the world, the virus has not been eradicated …