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Study showed that the spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the state of Karnataka occurred from both asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals.Case fatality rate of 3.8% was reported in Karnataka with 54 deaths out of 1394 cases Causes of 7 asymptomatic deaths were unrelated to COVID-19 and were due to Myocardial infarction, Traumatic Brain Injury, Suicide, and Septic shock.
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 		33521608
(EClinicalMedicine)
PMID
33521608
Date of Publishing: 2021 Feb
Title Descriptive epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Karnataka state, South India: Transmission dynamics of symptomatic vs. asymptomatic infections
Author(s) nameKumar N, Shahul Hameed SK et al.
Journal EClinicalMedicine
Impact factor
6.68
Citation count: 22

Mortality rate of COVID-19 patients in Northern Ireland was 17.7 per 100 000 population and generally lower than rest of the world.
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 		33509318
(Epidemiol Infect)
PMID
33509318
Date of Publishing: 2021 Jan 29
Title Epidemiology of COVID-19 in Northern Ireland, 26 February 2020-26 April 2020
Author(s) namePett J, McAleavey P et al.
Journal Epidemiol Infect
Impact factor
2.01
Citation count: 2

Mortality rate for 30 days was 21%, since 4 out of 19 patients admitted to ICU had weak SARS-CoV-2 antibody response. Survival outcome Graph: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7645408/figure/Fig1/?report=objectonly
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 		33158455
(Crit Care)
PMID
33158455
Date of Publishing: 2020 Nov 6
Title Weak anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody response isassociated withmortality inaSwedish cohort ofCOVID-19 patients incritical care
Author(s) nameAsif S, Frithiof R et al.
Journal Crit Care
Impact factor
6.7
Citation count: 5

Case fatality rate in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh was 0.86%, highest deaths was in the 50-64 age group and observed higher male deaths than female. Mortality graphs link
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 		33154136
(Science)
PMID
33154136
Date of Publishing: 2020 Nov 6
Title Epidemiology and transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in two Indian states
Author(s) nameLaxminarayan R, Wahl B et al.
Journal Science
Impact factor
20.57
Citation count: 169

Case fatality rate in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu was 1.6%, highest deaths was in the 50-64 age group and observed higher male deaths than female. Age specific COVID-19 mortality was lower in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh than that of United States. link_1 link_2
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 		33154136
(Science)
PMID
33154136
Date of Publishing: 2020 Nov 6
Title Epidemiology and transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in two Indian states
Author(s) nameLaxminarayan R, Wahl B et al.
Journal Science
Impact factor
20.57
Citation count: 169

Case Fatality Rate was 2-3% worldwide, higher than previously reported rate at 0.7-1.3% due to possible unreported asymptomatic SARS-COV-2 cases.
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 		33148769
(BMJ Open)
PMID
33148769
Date of Publishing: 2020 Nov 3
Title COVID-19 case-fatality rate and demographic and socioeconomic influencers: worldwide spatial regression analysis based on country-level data
Author(s) name Cao Y, Hiyoshi A, Montgomery S.
Journal BMJ Open
Impact factor
2.49
Citation count: 38

Mortality rate for Italian population in a simulation reduced by 54% when 55+ age groups were separated from other age groups (State 3 model), whereas 99% reduction in mortality was observed when the all the interactions between the different age groups were eliminated (State 5 model). Full simulation graphs for population outcomes- https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/8996c791-5489-4994-822a-4bebc26b9524/rsob200213f05.jpg
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 		33171068
(Open Biol)
PMID
33171068
Date of Publishing: 2020 Nov
Title Age separation dramatically reduces COVID-19 mortality rate in a computational model of a large population.
Author(s) name Mizrahi L, Shekhidem HA, Stern S.
Journal Open Biol
Impact factor
8.6
Citation count: 4

Mortality rate with respect to 12-country average COVID-19 deaths was reported to be 2772 per 100,000 LTC residents in contrast to 122 per 100,000 community-dwelling older persons (>65 years) and 4.9 per 100,000 community-dwelling younger persons (<65 years), suggesting a 644-fold higher rate of COVID-19 deaths among LTC residents.
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 		33138940
(J Am Med Dir Assoc)
PMID
33138940
Date of Publishing: 2020 Nov
Title A Comparison of COVID-19 Mortality Rates Among Long-Term Care Residents in 12 OECD Countries
Author(s) name Sepulveda ER, Stall NM, Sinha SK.
Journal J Am Med Dir Assoc
Impact factor
5.02
Citation count: 21

The positive correlation between Mortality and Allele D indicates that with increase in the percentage frequency of the deletion allele, the mortality has also increased.
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 		32791137
(Clin Chim Acta)
PMID
32791137
Date of Publishing: 2020 Nov
Title ACE deletion allele is associated with susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality rate: An epidemiological study in the Asian population
Author(s) namePati A, Mahto H et al.
Journal Clin Chim Acta
Impact factor
2.76
Citation count: 30

The study shows that the Primary care Health Professional Shortage Areas have a higher incidence of Covid-19 infection related mortality compared to Not Primary care Health Professional Shortage Areas. Also, the HPSA characteristic shows the highest incidence rate ratios(IRR) of deaths when compared to other population charateristics.
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 		32827110
(J Gen Intern Med)
PMID
32827110
Date of Publishing: 2020 Nov
Title Associations Between Primary Care Provider Shortage Areas and County-Level COVID-19 Infection and Mortality Rates in the USA
Author(s) name Ku BS, Druss BG.
Journal J Gen Intern Med
Impact factor
2.39
Citation count: 8

Mortality rate for Israeli population in a simulation reduced by 62% when 55+ age groups were separated from other age groups (State 3 model), whereas 93% reduction in mortality was observed when the all the interactions between the different age groups were eliminated (State 5 model). Simulation graphs for Mortality- https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/e1cc4804-db5e-4f7a-b73f-82b2c9d5eb71/rsob200213f06.jpg
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 		33171068
(Open Biol)
PMID
33171068
Date of Publishing: 2020 Nov
Title Age separation dramatically reduces COVID-19 mortality rate in a computational model of a large population.
Author(s) name Mizrahi L, Shekhidem HA, Stern S.
Journal Open Biol
Impact factor
8.6
Citation count: 4

Mortality rate was higher among men and in correlation to low socioeconomic status and place of residence. Rate of susceptibility to deaths in older individuals (>66 years) was higher as well.
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 		33037218
(Nat Commun)
PMID
33037218
Date of Publishing: 2020 Oct 9
Title A population-based cohort study of socio-demographic risk factors for COVID-19 deaths in Sweden
Author(s) nameDrefahl S, Wallace M et al.
Journal Nat Commun
Impact factor
11.8
Citation count: 90

Overall Crude Case Fatality Rate (CFR) in the study was 2.88% and adjusted CFR was 3.88%. Increase in COVID-19 cases per million, prevalence of Cardiovascular disease, Hypertension with Diabetes and Cancer by 10%, causes proportional increase in aCFR by 9%, 4%, 6% and 10%, respectively.
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 		33175707
(J Infect Dev Ctries)
PMID
33175707
Date of Publishing: 2020 Oct 31
Title Demystifying the varying case fatality rates (CFR) of COVID-19 in India: Lessons learned and future directions
Author(s) nameAsirvatham ES, Lakshmanan J et al.
Journal J Infect Dev Ctries
Impact factor
1.26
Citation count: 9

Mortality rate in Iceland was 3 deaths per 100,000 nationwide.
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 		32871063
(N Engl J Med)
PMID
32871063
Date of Publishing: 2020 Oct 29
Title Humoral Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2 in Iceland
Author(s) nameGudbjartsson DF, Norddahl GL et al.
Journal N Engl J Med
Impact factor
37.91
Citation count: 465

Infection fatality rate of elderly retired blood donors with reactive SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Danish Capital Region, Zealand Region, Central Denmark Region was 6.1%, 4%, 4.7%, respectively. In comparison, Active blood donors with reactive SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Danish Capital Region, Zealand Region and Central Denmark Region was 0.09%, 0.12%, 0.09%, respectively.
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 		33103182
(Clin Infect Dis)
PMID
33103182
Date of Publishing: 2020 Oct 26
Title SARS-CoV-2 infection fatality rate among elderly retired Danish blood donors- A cross-sectional study
Author(s) namePedersen OB, Nissen J et al.
Journal Clin Infect Dis
Impact factor
7.71
Citation count: 13

Overall mortality rate and cumulative incidence of COVID-19 patients in Hong Kong was 0.5 and 135.5 per 1,000,000 population. Also, incidence rate of second wave (126.4 per 1,000,000 population) was 10.6 times higher than the first first wave (11.9 per 1,000,000 population).
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 		33028700
(BMJ Glob Health)
PMID
33028700
Date of Publishing: 2020 Oct
Title Stringent containment measures without complete city lockdown to achieve low incidence and mortality across two waves of COVID-19 in Hong Kong
Author(s) nameWong MCS, Ng RWY et al.
Journal BMJ Glob Health
Impact factor
- n/a -
Citation count: 13

Mortality rate of 0.19 per 1,000,000 was reported, with a case fatality rate of 2.22% (3 deaths out of 135 COVID-19 cases) .
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 		32234107
(Disaster Med Public Health Prep)
PMID
32234107
Date of Publishing: 2020 Oct
Title Epidemiologic Features of 135 Patients With Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in Tianjin, China
Author(s) nameCao C, Li Y et al.
Journal Disaster Med Public Health Prep
Impact factor
0.94
Citation count: 5

Mortality rate of 8.3% was reported with highest mortality in male COVID-19 patients with 5%, age groups of 60-69 years, 70-79 years, 80-89 years around 2% and patients living in low SDI regions with 3.3%.
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 		33027349
(Cien Saude Colet)
PMID
33027349
Date of Publishing: 2020 Oct
Title Risk factors associated with delay in diagnosis and mortality in patients with COVID-19 in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Author(s) nameCobre AF, Böger B et al.
Journal Cien Saude Colet
Impact factor
0.9
Citation count: 9

Case fatality rate of 3.74% was reported with 82.66% individuals having mild pneumonia or uncomplicated illness out of 1015 cases.
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 		32255183
(Clin Infect Dis)
PMID
32255183
Date of Publishing: 2020 Sep 12
Title Lockdown contained the spread of 2019 novel coronavirus disease in Huangshi city, China: Early epidemiological findings
Author(s) nameJi T, Chen HL et al.
Journal Clin Infect Dis
Impact factor
7.71
Citation count: 45

Mortality rate of 50% in COVID-19 patients admitted to ICU was reported with their deaths associated with older age, male gender, obesity and cardiovascular disease as risk factors.
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 		33015815
(Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci)
PMID
33015815
Date of Publishing: 2020 Sep
Title Italian SARS-CoV-2 patients in intensive care: towards an identikit for subjects at risk?
Author(s) nameBaronio M, Freni-Sterrantino A et al.
Journal Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci
Impact factor
2.51
Citation count: 8

In a Latin America village, 3/4 of the overall mortality rate was due to SARS-CoV-2 confirmed/suspect cases in Jan-June, 2020.
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 		32781165
(Int J Infect Dis)
PMID
32781165
Date of Publishing: 2020 Aug 8:S1201-9712(20)30630-5
Title SARS-CoV-2-related mortality in a rural Latin American population
Author(s) nameDel Brutto OH, Costa AF et al.
Journal Int J Infect Dis
Impact factor
3.42
Citation count: 10

Mortality rate due to COVID-19 was 61.06 per million and Prevalence of 2384 per million was observed in the Turkish population. Positive significant correlation was observed between prevalence (per million) and mortality rates (per million) and GT genotype at rs7041 locus of DBP among all populations.
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 		32770768
(J Med Virol)
PMID
32770768
Date of Publishing: 2020 Aug 8
Title The role of DBP gene polymorphisms in the prevalence of new coronavirus disease 2019 infection and mortality rate
Author(s) name Karcioglu Batur L, Hekim N.
Journal J Med Virol
Impact factor
2.07
Citation count: 23

Patients treated with only hydroxychloroquine showed 13.5% mortality.
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 		32623082
(Int J Infect Dis)
PMID
32623082
Date of Publishing: 2020 Aug
Title Treatment with hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and combination in patients hospitalized with COVID-19
Author(s) nameArshad S, Kilgore P et al.
Journal Int J Infect Dis
Impact factor
3.42
Citation count: 250

Patients treated with neither hydroxychloroquine nor azithromycin showed 26.4% mortality.
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 		32623082
(Int J Infect Dis)
PMID
32623082
Date of Publishing: 2020 Aug
Title Treatment with hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and combination in patients hospitalized with COVID-19
Author(s) nameArshad S, Kilgore P et al.
Journal Int J Infect Dis
Impact factor
3.42
Citation count: 250

Patients treated with hydroxychloroquine & azithromycin showed 20.1% mortality.
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 		32623082
(Int J Infect Dis)
PMID
32623082
Date of Publishing: 2020 Aug
Title Treatment with hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and combination in patients hospitalized with COVID-19
Author(s) nameArshad S, Kilgore P et al.
Journal Int J Infect Dis
Impact factor
3.42
Citation count: 250