Tracking all-cause mortality at the epicenter of Indonesia's COVID-19 epidemic (TreMOR)

Hypothesis There was an association between quantifiable excess mortality and the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic in six urban centers in Indonesia. - Target To estimate excess mortality from the COVID-19 epidemic taking place in six major urban centers in the island of Java. We recommend the following goals: Identify specific government officials - burial or cremation data collectors or others who estimate all-cause mortality and contract them to report the data there for us weekly; Weekly aggregation of all-cause mortality by age and sex for all six cities from January 2017 to date, weekly reporting maintained through March 2021; Weekly aggregation of reported data regarding suspected COVID-19 deaths, along with confirmed COVID-19 cases and confirmed COVID-19 deaths by age and sex count; For each city, calculate the monthly excess of COVID-19 deaths compared with confirmed and suspected COVID-19 deaths; Report these findings to government agencies managing the COVID-19 crisis; Publish these findings monthly in Indonesian on the Indonesian website- The Conversation. Publication of findings during the first 3 months of the epidemic in Indonesia (March, April, May 2020) in a peer-reviewed biomedical journal