Jennifer Rubin, an opinion columnist for the newspaper, mentioned in the article on April 12 that COVID-19 death rates in U.S. red states are more than 38 percent higher than in blue states. "Red America blames government for closing schools and causing economic turmoil; blue America blames...
Or that the handful of elderly Swedes who received vaccines in February and March accounted for a hugely disproportionate number of the post-vaccine deaths. (Because per-week Swedish death rates are higher in the winter, a large number of post-vaccine deaths in those months would...
Democratic voters had significantly higher excess death rates compared with Republican voters for the age group 65 to 74 years. The analyses stratified by state showed that differences in excess death rates between Republican and Democratic voters were primarily seen in voters residing in Ohio, with ...
Since they can potentially reduce antibody neutralization and increase affinity for ACE2 receptors, which results in increased severity and could even lead to death, they are also linked to higher viral transmissibility, increased disease severity, and possible evasion of immunity, potentially impacting ...
The death toll, widely used in studies, fails to consider differences between population’s age structures. For this reason, scholars prefer looking at age-specific mortality rates instead, as they can be aggregated into a summary measure such as the age-standardised death rate or period life ...
Rates of symptomatic cases, medical consultations, hospitalizations and deaths were estimated at 796 (95% CI: 703–977), 489 (472–509), 370 (358–384), and 36.2 (35.0–37.3) per 100,000 persons, respectively. The COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan had a higher burden than the 2009 influenza ...
patients with severe and critical COVID-19 infections were at substantially higher risk of developing acute kidney injury with varying outcomes of sustained kidney injury, recovery, need for renal replacement therapy, or death. Predictor factors for severe acute kidney injury overlapped between the diff...
or death of a household income earner. In addition to other control variables, we looked at how social safety net accessibility affected the result variables. In light of this, we anticipate that improved access to social safety nets will slightly mitigate the impact of transient shocks. The pol...
Next, we add two state-level variables in Model 2. The findings show that people from states with higher COVID–19 death rates are more likely to wear a mask (odds ratio = 1.265). The odds of wearing a mask increase by 27% for each unit increase in the death rate. In addition, pe...
Fig. 1: Global excess and reported COVID-19 deaths and death rates per 100,000 population. a, Cumulative global excess death estimates and the cumulative reported COVID-19 deaths by month from January 2020 to December 2021.b, Global excess death rates per 100,000 population and the reported...