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Assessment of COVID-19 as the Underlying Cause of Death Among Children, Teens
About The Study: Among U.S. children and teenagers, from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2022, COVID-19 ranked eighth among all causes of deaths, fifth in disease-related causes of deaths (excluding unintentional injuries, assault, and suicide), and first in deaths caused by infectious or respiratory diseases. Various factors, including underreporting and not accounting for COVID-19’s role as a contributing cause of death from other diseases, mean that these estimates may understate the true mortality burden of COVID-19.
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JAMA Network Open
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University of Oxford, UK
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Drs Semenova and Flaxman acknowledge funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (EP/V002910/2) and from the MRC (MR/V038109/1). Drs Mishra and Bhatt acknowledge funding from the Novo Nordisk Young Investigator Award (NNF20OC0059309). Dr Whittaker acknowledges funding from the MRC Doctoral Training Programme that supports his PhD studies (award reference 1975152). Dr Parks was supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) grant K99 ES033742. Dr Whittaker is supported by Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship, reference 224190/Z/21/Z. Mr Rashid is supported by an Imperial College President’s PhD scholarship. Drs Whittaker, Unwin, and Bhatt acknowledge funding from the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis (reference MR/R015600/1), jointly funded by the UK MRC and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), under the MRC/FCDO Concordat agreement and is also part of the EDCTP2 programme supported by the European Union.
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