Sex differences in immunity to viral infections

H Jacobsen, SL Klein - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has increased awareness about sex-specific differences
in immunity and outcomes following SARS-CoV-2 infection. Strong evidence of a male bias …

Global excess mortality during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis

W Shang, Y Wang, J Yuan, Z Guo, J Liu, M Liu - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: Currently, reported COVID-19 deaths are inadequate to assess the impact of
the pandemic on global excess mortality. All-cause excess mortality is a WHO …

The WHO estimates of excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic

W Msemburi, A Karlinsky, V Knutson… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The World Health Organization has a mandate to compile and disseminate statistics
on mortality, and we have been tracking the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic since …

[HTML][HTML] A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat

JV Lazarus, D Romero, CJ Kopka, SA Karim… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Despite notable scientific and medical advances, broader political, socioeconomic and
behavioural factors continue to undercut the response to the COVID-19 pandemic 1, 2. Here …

Tracking excess mortality across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic with the World Mortality Dataset

A Karlinsky, D Kobak - elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Comparing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic between countries or across time is
difficult because the reported numbers of cases and deaths can be strongly affected by …

Addressing vaccine hesitancy and access barriers to achieve persistent progress in Israel's COVID-19 vaccination program

B Rosen, R Waitzberg, A Israeli, M Hartal… - Israel journal of health …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract As of March 31, 2021, Israel had administered 116 doses of vaccine for COVID-19
per 100 population (of any age)–far more than any other OECD country. It was also ahead of …

Regional excess mortality during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in five European countries

G Konstantinoudis, M Cameletti… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on excess mortality from all causes in 2020 varied
across and within European countries. Using data for 2015–2019, we applied Bayesian …

Effects of covid-19 pandemic on life expectancy and premature mortality in 2020: time series analysis in 37 countries

N Islam, DA Jdanov, VM Shkolnikov, K Khunti… - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Objective To estimate the changes in life expectancy and years of life lost in 2020
associated with the covid-19 pandemic. Design Time series analysis. Setting 37 upper …

Excess death rates for republican and democratic registered voters in Florida and Ohio during the COVID-19 pandemic

J Wallace, P Goldsmith-Pinkham… - JAMA Internal …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance There is evidence that Republican-leaning counties have had higher COVID-19
death rates than Democratic-leaning counties and similar evidence of an association …

Sex disparities in COVID-19 outcomes in the United States: Quantifying and contextualizing variation

AC Danielsen, KMN Lee, M Boulicault… - Social science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents the first longitudinal study of sex disparities in COVID-19 cases and
mortalities across US states, derived from the unique 13-month dataset of the US …