All-cause mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru

Yanwen Liu; Shi Zhao; Lin Yang; Lissette Aliaga-Linares; Daihai He

doi:10.1016/j.ijregi.2022.10.005

All-cause mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru

IJID Reg. 2022 Dec:5:177-179. doi: 10.1016/j.ijregi.2022.10.005. Epub 2022 Oct 29.

Authors

Yanwen Liu¹, Shi Zhao^{2

3}, Lin Yang⁴, Lissette Aliaga-Linares⁵, Daihai He¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Applied Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
² JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
³ CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, China.
⁴ School of Nursing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
⁵ Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Office of Latino/Latin American Studies, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA.

Abstract

There was heterogeneity in the median age of all-cause deaths in Peru during different waves of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Before predominance of the Omicron variant, the median age of deaths was lower than normal during the peaks of daily all-cause mortality. However, this increased above normal when the Omicron variant was predominant. The daily patterns of cause-specific deaths related directly and indirectly to COVID-19 in Peru were also investigated. Most excess deaths indirectly related to COVID-19 were caused primarily by diseases of the circulatory system, possibly due to disruption of medical services, and the majority of excess deaths directly related to COVID-19 were caused primarily by COVID-19 and diseases of the respiratory system.

Keywords: COVID-19; Excess mortality; Median age.