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. 2021 Oct:62:66-68.
doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2021.06.003. Epub 2021 Jun 20.

Trends in the distribution of COVID-19 deaths by age and race/ethnicity - United States, April 4-December 26, 2020

Lauren M Rossen  1 , Jeremy A W Gold  2 , Farida B Ahmad  3 , Paul D Sutton  3 , Amy M Branum  3
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Trends in the distribution of COVID-19 deaths by age and race/ethnicity - United States, April 4-December 26, 2020

Lauren M Rossen et al. Ann Epidemiol. 2021 Oct.
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Keywords: Coronavirus 2019; Disparities; Mortality; National vital statistics system; Sars-cov-2.

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Fig. 1
Weekly percent of COVID-19 deaths in each age group, by race/ethnicity (top); and percent in each racial/ethnic group, by age (bottom) — April 4, 2020 to December 26, 2020. NOTES: The weekly percentage distribution of COVID-19 deaths is shown using a 4-week rolling sum of COVID-19 deaths to mitigate the week-to-week variability in the percentages. Abbreviations: NHOPI = Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander; AI/AN = American Indian or Alaska Native. The right-hand side of each figure shows the age distribution in the population. Death data were from the National Vital Statistics System, and population distributions were from the 2019 Census estimates. Dashed lines are shown in the bottom figure to distinguish between groups where the lines may overlap.
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