Background The COVID-19 pandemic priorities have focused on prevention, detection, and
response. Beyond morbidity and mortality, pandemics carry secondary impacts, such as …

Background In the 6 months following our estimates from March 1, 2020, to April 30, 2021,
the proliferation of new coronavirus variants, updated mortality data, and disparities in …

Methods| Using previous methodology for combining agespecific death and fertility rates, 4
we use Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting (GATHER) …

BACKGROUND Most coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths occur among adults, not
children, and attention has focused on mitigating COVID-19 burden among adults. However …

Background While the COVID-19 pandemic will increase mortality due to the virus, it is also
likely to increase mortality indirectly. In this study, we estimate the additional maternal and …

There is no doubt that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has huge economic
implications as highlighted by the media, but there are also a myriad of considerable direct …

While the world was gripped by the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, children
continued to face the same crisis they have for decades: intolerably high mortality rates and …

Governments are grappling with the challenge of returning societies to quasi-normal
following 'lockdowns' to control the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic …

Around the world reports are emerging of numerous residential institutions for children being
closed as a result of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Children …

Objectives Using the National Child Mortality Database (NCMD), this work aims to
investigate and quantify the characteristics of children dying of COVID-19, and to identify any …