Measuring the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in Ecuador using preliminary estimates of excess mortality, March 17–October 22, 2020 | Zendy

Holger Cevallos-Valdiviezo | Zendy; Allan Vergara-Montesdeoca | Zendy; Gema Zambrano-Zambrano | Zendy

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Measuring the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in Ecuador using preliminary estimates of excess mortality, March 17–October 22, 2020

Author(s) -

Holger Cevallos-Valdiviezo,

Allan Vergara-Montesdeoca,

Gema Zambrano-Zambrano

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

international journal of infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278

H-Index - 89

eISSN - 1878-3511

pISSN - 1201-9712

DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.12.045

Subject(s) - excess mortality , death toll , pandemic , demography , covid-19 , outbreak , confidence interval , autoregressive integrated moving average , geography , mortality rate , estimation , medicine , environmental health , disease , statistics , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , time series , sociology , mathematics , management , pathology , economics

Ecuador is among the worst-hit countries in the world by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In terms of confirmed deaths per million inhabitants, as of October 22, Ecuador ranks fourth in the Americas and ninth worldwide according to data from the World Health Organization. In this report, we estimate excess deaths due to any cause in Ecuador since the start of the lockdown measures on March 17, 2020 until October 22, 2020.

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