The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has increased awareness about sex-specific differences
in immunity and outcomes following SARS-CoV-2 infection. Strong evidence of a male bias …

Background: Currently, reported COVID-19 deaths are inadequate to assess the impact of
the pandemic on global excess mortality. All-cause excess mortality is a WHO …

Abstract The World Health Organization has a mandate to compile and disseminate statistics
on mortality, and we have been tracking the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic since …

Despite notable scientific and medical advances, broader political, socioeconomic and
behavioural factors continue to undercut the response to the COVID-19 pandemic 1, 2. Here …

Comparing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic between countries or across time is
difficult because the reported numbers of cases and deaths can be strongly affected by …

Abstract As of March 31, 2021, Israel had administered 116 doses of vaccine for COVID-19
per 100 population (of any age)–far more than any other OECD country. It was also ahead of …

Importance The benefit of high-flow nasal cannula oxygen (high-flow oxygen) in terms of
intubation and mortality in patients with respiratory failure due to COVID-19 is controversial …

Importance There is evidence that Republican-leaning counties have had higher COVID-19
death rates than Democratic-leaning counties and similar evidence of an association …

Objective To estimate the changes in life expectancy and years of life lost in 2020
associated with the covid-19 pandemic. Design Time series analysis. Setting 37 upper …

There are no widely accepted, quantitative definitions for the end of a pandemic such as
COVID‐19. The end of the pandemic due to a new virus and the transition to endemicity may …