ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Evaluation of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on overall mortality in Ozyorsk urban district
1 Southern Urals Biophysics Institute of the Federal Medical Biological Agency, Ozyorsk, Russia
2 Clinical Hospital “RZhD-Medicine”, Chelyabinsk, Russia
Correspondence should be addressed: Mikhail V. Osipov
Ozyorskoe shosse 19/1, k. 108, Ozyorsk, 456780, Russia; us.ibus@vopiso
Acknowledgements: the authors would like to express their appreciation to Yulia V. Tzareva, PhD, research fellow at the Department of Epidemiology, Southern Urals Biophysics Institute, for discussing the study results.
Author contribution: Osipov MV — concept, design, research coordination, statistical analysis and data interpretation, drawing conclusions, manuscript writing, and translation; Sokolova VA — analysis, study planning, data interpretation, discussion; Kushnir AS — literature analysis, data interpretation, manuscript writing.