Across 29 high-income countries, excess deaths in 2020 — the contrast between the number of all-cause deaths compared with historic projections — approached 1 million, a recent study showed.
In most countries, the estimated number of excess deaths surpassed the number of reported COVID-19 deaths, according to Nazrul Islam, PhD, MBBS, MPH, a quantitative research associate from the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge, and colleagues. In the United States and the United Kingdom, the estimated number of excess deaths were more than 30% higher than the number of