BACKGROUND Demographers have emphasized the importance of age in explaining the
spread of COVID-19 and its impact on mortality. However, the relationship between COVID …

Objectives Previous studies have found a pattern of flatter COVID-19 age-mortality curves
among low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) using only official COVID-19 …

Abstract Among Italy, Spain, and Japan, the age distributions of COVID-19 mortality show
only small variation even though the number of deaths per country shows large variation. To …

BACKGROUND To date, any attention paid to the age shape of COVID-19 deaths has been
mostly in relation to understanding the differences in case fatality rates between countries …

Background Case-fatality from COVID-19 has been reported to be relatively high in patients
age 65 years or older. We sought to determine the age-specific rates of COVID-19 mortality …

Determine age-specific infection fatality rates for COVID-19 to inform public health policies
and communications that help protect vulnerable age groups. Studies of COVID-19 …

Objectives Initial data on COVID-19 infection has pointed out a special vulnerability of older
adults. Design We performed a meta-analysis with available national reports on May 7, 2020 …

The number of reported coronavirus disease (COVID-19) deaths per 100,000 persons
observed so far in 2020 is described in 15 European countries and the USA as dependent …

To put estimates of COVID-19 mortality into perspective, we estimate age-specific mortality
for an epidemic claiming for illustrative purposes 1 million US lives, with results …

Background Mortality is a key component of the natural history of COVID-19 infection.
Surveillance data on COVID-19 deaths and case diagnoses are widely available in the …