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Comment
. 2023 Nov;94(5):1592.
doi: 10.1038/s41390-023-02612-3. Epub 2023 Apr 17.

Impact of COVID-19 on mortality under 5 years old

Yoshiyasu Takefuji  1
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Impact of COVID-19 on mortality under 5 years old

Yoshiyasu Takefuji. Pediatr Res. 2023 Nov.

Abstract

This paper investigated impact of COVID-19 on mortality under 5 years old. The mortality effects were calculated with two CDC datasets such as the dataset from 2015 to 2020 and the provisional dataset from 2020 to 2022. The result shows that there is no effect of COVID-19 on mortality under 5 years old.

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The author declares no competing interests.

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the number of deaths under 5 years of age from 2015 to 2020.
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