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. 2020 Nov:188:32-34.
doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2020.08.022. Epub 2020 Sep 6.

COVID-19 deaths in children: comparison with all- and other causes and trends in incidence of mortality

S S Bhopal  1 , J Bagaria  2 , B Olabi  3 , R Bhopal  4
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COVID-19 deaths in children: comparison with all- and other causes and trends in incidence of mortality

S S Bhopal et al. Public Health. 2020 Nov.
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Fig. 1
Fig. 1
(a) Proportion of deaths from all-causes and specific causes including COVID-19 for 0–9 and 10–19 year olds (0-14y, 5-14y in the USA) in each of the USA, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Spain, France and South Korea. (b) Mortality from all- and specific causes in these countries and age-groups as a percentage of the population in that age group.
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Fig. 2
Number of deaths in children aged 0–19 years in each of the USA, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Spain, France and South Korea by week from 1 March 2020 to 31 July 2020. Coloured arrows indicate the date of peak reported deaths for all ages (from: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-new-confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-vs-cumulative-cases-positive-rate).
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