
LISBON, Portugal — The average number of daily COVID-19 deaths is 6% higher on weekends compared with weekdays, according to a global study presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
Fizza Manzoor, MD, of the University of Toronto, and colleagues conducted a retrospective analysis of deaths reported to the WHO database from March 7, 2020, to March 7, 2022, to determine when COVID-19 deaths were occurring.
They calculated the average number of deaths on weekends and compared them with the average number of the preceding 5 days. This was repeated 10