Covid-19 may have indirectly accelerated mortality in certain causes of death including dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, with more deaths than usual in the early stage of the pandemic but fewer in more recent months, new analysis suggests.
Most leading causes of mortality, including liver disease, diabetes and old age, saw a similar proportion of deaths that were above the pre-pandemic average – known as “excess deaths” – in both 2020 and 2021.
