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cord-293140-lp3l4iap	Ghislandi, S.	News from the front: Excess mortality and life expectancy in two major epicentres of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	2020-05-05		.txt	text/plain	8334	441	59	Given the clustering nature of the epidemic, focusing on the areas with high concentration of severe illness and deaths allows us to capture the true impact of COVID-19 on mortality and life expectancy, which are likely to be underestimated in the national level data. Exploiting daily death registrations data published by the Italian Statistical Office (ISTAT), this paper provides the first evidence-based assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on mortality and life expectancy in the first hardest hit epicentres outside China. Hence, by using complete and reliable data on the number of deaths for the first largest-scale outbreak outside China, this paper provides the first unbiased account of the mortality impact of COVID-19 and its consequence on life expectancy. Finally, we aggregate death counts and population exposure values over the entire year to derive age-specific mortality rates and life expectancies under both scenarios.	./cache/cord-293140-lp3l4iap.txt	./txt/cord-293140-lp3l4iap.txt