Choice of Outcome in COVID-19 Studies and Implications for Policy: Mortality and Fatality

Westreich, Daniel; Edwards, Jessie K.; Tennant, Peter W.G.; Murray, Eleanor J.; Van Smeden, Maarten

doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwab244

Choice of Outcome in COVID-19 Studies and Implications for Policy: Mortality and Fatality

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Choice of Outcome in COVID-19 Studies and Implications for Policy: Mortality and Fatality

Westreich, Daniel; Edwards, Jessie K.; Tennant, Peter W.G.; Murray, Eleanor J.; Van Smeden, Maarten

(2022) American Journal of Epidemiology, volume 191, issue 2, pp. 282 - 286

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Abstract

In this brief communication, we discuss the confusion of mortality with fatality in the interpretation of evidence in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and how this confusion affects the translation of science into policy and practice. We discuss how this confusion has influenced COVID-19 policy in France, Sweden, and ... read more

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Keywords: COVID-19/mortality, Epidemiologic Studies, Health Policy, Humans, Policy Making, Risk, SARS-CoV-2, Vulnerable Populations, Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwab244

ISSN: 0002-9262

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Note: © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.

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