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Covid-19 and Population Age Structure

Haridas, A.; Pratap, G.

2020-06-03 infectious diseases
10.1101/2020.05.31.20118349 medRxiv
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Epidemiological studies suggest that age distribution of a population has a non-trivial effect on how morbidity rates, mortality rates and case fatality rates (CFR) vary when there is an epidemic or pandemic. We look at the empirical evidence from a large cohort of countries to see the sensitivity of Covid-19 data to their respective median ages. The insights that emerge could be used to control for age structure effects while investigating other factors like cross-protection, comorbidities, etc.

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