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Results from Eurosurveillance study shows COVID-19 mortality attenuated during widespread Omicron transmission in Denmark, 2020 to 2022

The study's retrospective in-depth analysis of the COVID-19 mortality burden confirms an important shift in COVID-19 mortality following the emergence and spread of the Omicron variant from late 2021 onwards, with a markedly higher proportion of people estimated to have died with, rather than of, COVID-19 as compared with mortality patterns observed earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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    When Denmark in February 2022 lifted all restrictions against COVID-19 amidst wide spread of the new Omicron variant, it looked as if the number of COVID-19 deaths rose steeply, when in fact, most of the deaths were due to something else but those dying happened to also be positive for COVID-19 at the time. In this study, scientists set out to find out how many recorded deaths were actually due to COVID-19.

    The study's retrospective in-depth analysis of the COVID-19 mortality burden confirms an important shift in COVID-19 mortality following the emergence and spread of the Omicron variant from late 2021 onwards, with a markedly higher proportion of people estimated to have died with, rather than of, COVID-19 as compared with mortality patterns observed earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic. In other words, the mortality related to COVID-19 after the emergence of the Omicron variant has attenuated.

    Read the study here.