COVID‐19 is an ongoing pandemic caused by the SARS‐CoV‐2 coronavirus that poses one
of the greatest challenges to public health in recent years. SARS‐CoV‐2 is known 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 …

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 …

Four months have passed since the World Health Organization (WHO) identified coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a public health emergency, and 3 months since it declared the …

Long COVID is a poorly understood condition, with a wide spectrum of effects on multiple
body systems and variable presentation in different individuals. Long COVID is of particular …

While elderly patients are at high risk of fatality, research concerning COVID-19 has largely
been done on clarifying the clinical features. As such, the present work aims to identify risk …

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 …

Background Age and disease prevalence are the 2 biggest risk factors for Coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) symptom severity and death. We therefore hypothesized that …

This paper assesses the age specificity of the infection fatality rate (IFR) for COVID-19. Our
benchmark meta-regression synthesizes the age-specific IFRs from four recent large-scale …

The rapid outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been a matter of
international concern as the disease is spreading fast [1, 2]. Considering that the contagious …