The global case fatality rate due to COVID-19 in hospitalized elderly patients by sex, year, gross domestic product, and continent: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression.

New Microbes New Infect · 2023 · PMC9811917 · PMID 36618974

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Moreover, there was a decreasing trend by increasing the ratio of female sex in the original studies. 3.3.

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