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. 2021 Jul;93(7):4127-4129.
doi: 10.1002/jmv.27007. Epub 2021 Apr 23.

COVID-19 mortality needs age adjusting for international comparisons

Christian Garcia-Calavaro  1 , Angel Paternina-Caicedo  2 , Adrian D Smith  3 , Lee H Harrison  4 , Fernando De la Hoz-Restrepo  5 , Enrique Acosta  6 , Tim Riffe  6
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COVID-19 mortality needs age adjusting for international comparisons

Christian Garcia-Calavaro et al. J Med Virol. 2021 Jul.
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Keywords: SARS coronavirus; epidemiology; pandemics; virus classification.

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COVID‐19 crude, age‐adjusted, and age‐adjusted approximately 100 days mortality rates in 51 countries, 50 U.S. states, and the District of Columbia, by November 23, 2020. Both Panels A, B: Black Numbers in the left column represent the days between the 50th confirmed case and the last date with data for cumulative crude and age‐adjusted death rate calculation. Green numbers in the right column represent the closest days to 100 days with reported data since the 50th confirmed case for age‐adjusted approximately 100 days death rate. Panel B, Crude rates for Illinois is 525.2 (not shown). COVID‐19, coronavirus disease 2019
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