SHOCK REPORT: EU Total Deaths Per Week for All 24 Reporting Countries Combined is LOWER than the Normal Weekly Rate in EVERY Age Group

The EuroMOMO website publishes weekly reports of mortality levels in up to 24 European countries or regions of countries.
The weekly bulletin is published every Thursday around noon.

Over the past few days due to the growing number of coronavirus cases and deaths in several EU countries, the EuroMOMO reporting hub has received many questions about the weekly all-cause mortality data and the possible contribution of any COVID-19 related mortality.

Investigators are asking why they are not observing increased deaths in the reported mortality figures for the COVID-19 affected countries.

Via the Euromomo website:

The answer is that increased mortality that may occur primarily at subnational level or within smaller focal areas, and/or concentrated within smaller age groups, may not be detectable at the national level, even more so not in the pooled analysis at European level, given the large total population denominator. Furthermore, there is always a few weeks of delay in death registration and reporting. Hence, the EuroMOMO mortality figures for the most recent weeks must be interpreted with some caution.

Therefore, although increased mortality may not be immediately observable in the EuroMOMO figures, this does not mean that increased mortality does not occur in some areas or in some age groups, including mortality related to COVID-19.