COVID-19 mortality needs age adjusting for international comparisons
J Med Virol
.
2021 Jul;93(7):4127-4129.
doi: 10.1002/jmv.27007.
Epub 2021 Apr 23.
Authors
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
Affiliations
1
Programa Centro de Salud Pública, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad de Santiago, Santiago, Chile.
2
School of Medicine, Universidad del Sinú, Cartagena, Colombia.
3
Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
4
Center for Genomic Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
5
Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
6
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
PMID:
33837989
PMCID:
PMC8250608
DOI:
10.1002/jmv.27007
No abstract available
Keywords:
SARS coronavirus; epidemiology; pandemics; virus classification.
Publication types
Letter
MeSH terms
Age Factors*
COVID-19 / mortality*
COVID-19 Drug Treatment
Humans
SARS-CoV-2 / isolation & purification