The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Non–COVID-19 Deaths: Population-Wide Retrospective Cohort Study

Abraham Ka-chung Wai   ^{1, 2, 3 *} , MBA, JD, MD ;   Tsz Fung Yip   ^{4 *} , BEng ;   Yui Hang Wong   ⁴ , BSc ;   Chun Kit Chu   ¹ , MStat ;   Teddy Lee   ¹ , BPharm ;   Ken Hung On Yu   ⁴ , PhD ;   Wang Leong So   ¹ , BPharm ;   Janet Y H Wong   ⁵ , BNurs, PhD ;   Carlos King-ho Wong   ⁶ , PhD ;   Joshua W Ho   ^{4 *} , PhD ;   Timothy Rainer   ^{1 *} , MD

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

² Department of Accident & Emergency, The University of Hong Kong–Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China

³ Department of Accident & Emergency, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

⁴ School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

⁵ School of Nursing & Health Studies, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Kowloon, China (Hong Kong)

⁶ Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

*these authors contributed equally