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The role of population structure when measuring COVID-19 impact across countries

Bramajo, O.; Infantino, M.; Unda Venegas, R.; Cardona-Maya, W. D.; Richly, P.

2020-12-02 epidemiology
10.1101/2020.11.30.20239947 medRxiv
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The search for accurate indicators to compare the pandemic impact between countries is still a challenge. The crude death rate, case fatality rate by country and sex, standardized fatality rate, and standardized death rate were calculated using data from Argentina and Colombia countries. We show that even when frequently used indicator as deaths per million are quite similar, 512 deaths per million in Argentina and 522 deaths per million in Colombia, a significant heterogeneity can be found when the mortality data is decomposed by sex or age.

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