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. 2021 Sep 9:9:738423.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.738423. eCollection 2021.

Covid-19 Incidence and Mortality by Age Strata and Comorbidities in Mexico City: A Focus in the Pediatric Population

Nadia González-García  1 , María F Castilla-Peón  2 , Fortino Solórzano Santos  3 , Rodolfo Norberto Jiménez-Juárez  4   5 , Maria Elena Martínez Bustamante  6 , Miguel Angel Minero Hibert  6 , Juan Garduño-Espinosa  2
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Covid-19 Incidence and Mortality by Age Strata and Comorbidities in Mexico City: A Focus in the Pediatric Population

Nadia González-García et al. Front Public Health. .

Abstract

Background: SARS-COV2 appears less frequently and less severely in the pediatric population than in the older age groups. There is a need to precisely estimate the specific risks for each age group to design health and education policies suitable for each population. Objective: This study aimed to describe the risk of death in SARS-COV2 infected subjects by age group and according to the presence of comorbidities. Methods: We analyzed data of confirmed SARS-COV2 infection cases where symptoms began between February 22th, 2020, and April 18th, 2021, as published by the General Epidemiology Direction (DGE) of the Mexican Ministry of Health. We calculated COVID-19 incidence and mortality by age group using population data from the Statistics and Population National Institute (INEGI), and estimated the association between risk of death and the presence of comorbidities. Results: Mortality in SARS-COV2 infected people varied considerably, between 7 and 155 deaths per million per year in the under-20 age groups compared to 441 to 15,929 in the older age groups. Mortality in pediatric populations is strongly associated with comorbidities (OR: 4.6-47.9) compared to the milder association for older age groups (OR: 3.16-1.23). Conclusion: The risk of death from SARS-COV2 infection in children is low and is strongly associated with comorbidities.

Keywords: COVID-19; Case-Fatality Rate; Incidence; Mexico City; Mortality; SARS-COV2; children.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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(A) COVID-19 annualized incidence and mortality rates per 1,000,000 people (B) case-fatality rate, and COVID-19/ 2019 all-cause mortality ratio by age strata.
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