Trends and cross-country inequities by region, sex, age in the mortality, incidence, and disability-adjusted life years of COVID-19: Analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.

PLoS Negl Trop Dis · 2025 · PMC12558479 · PMID 41144508

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While the age-standardized incidence rate of COVID-19 demonstrated a decreasing trend with advancing age among the older individuals (over 65 years), the corresponding age-standardized mortality rate increased rapidly with age.

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