All‑cause excess mortality in Germany peaked during the late‑2022 influenza period, exceeding peaks during SARS‑CoV‑2 waves (2020–2023)

• Ursel Heudorf ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ursel Heudorf, Bernd Kowall

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation MDRO-Network Rhine-Main, Dietzenbach, Germany

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• Bernd Kowall

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ursel Heudorf, Bernd Kowall

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Bernd.Kowall@uk-essen.de

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4163-1696

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