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"The numbers that summarize information related to health.  

Numbers on a graph or in a chart may seem straightforward, but that's not always the case. It's important to be critical and consider the source. If needed, ask questions to help you understand the statistics and what they are showing."

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8 in 10 People Who Have Died of COVID-19 Were Age 65 or Older – But the Share Varies By State
All-Cause Excess Mortality and COVID-19–Related Mortality Among US Adults Aged 25-44 Years, March-July 2020
Analysis of the initial lot of the CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) real-time RT-PCR diagnostic panel
Appendix 1: estimation of number needed to vaccinate to prevent a COVID-19 hospitalisation for primary vaccination, booster vaccination (3rd dose), autumn 2022 and spring 2023 booster for those newly in a risk group
Biden-Harris Administration Increases Medicare Payment for Life-Saving COVID-19 Vaccine
Biden's Bounty on Your Life: Hospitals' Incentive Payments for COVID-19
Body Mass Index and Risk for COVID-19–Related Hospitalization, Intensive Care Unit Admission, Invasive Mechanical Ventilation, and Death — United States, March–December 2020
CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel
CDC coding error led to overcount of 72,000 Covid deaths
CDC response to Freedom of Information Act Request re. COVID-19 Reinfection and Transmission
Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes of Children and Adolescents Aged less than 18 Years Hospitalized with COVID-19, 6 Hospitals, United States, July-August 2021
Characteristics and Outcomes of Children With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Infection Admitted to US and Canadian Pediatric Intensive Care Units
Children and young people remain at low risk of COVID-19 mortality
Collateral Global Report 8: Understanding Definitions and Reporting of Deaths Attributed to COVID-19 in the UK Evidence from FOI Requests
Comment on Flaxman et al. (2020): The illusory effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe
Correlation Between 3790 Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction - Positives Samples and Positive Cell Cultures, Including 1941 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Isolates
COVID-19 Alert No. 2: New ICD code introduced for COVID-19 deaths
COVID-19 and All-Cause Mortality Data by Age Group Reveals Risk of COVID Vaccine-Induced Fatality is Equal to or Greater than the Risk of a COVID death for all Age Groups Under 80 Years Old as of 6 February 2022)
COVID-19 confirmed deaths in England r(to 31 January 2021): report
COVID-19 in Northern Ireland: Vaccination Status of Deaths and Hospitalisations — Updated to Include Weeks 51 to 2 (20th December 2021 to 16th January 2022)
Covid-19 in schoolchildren: A comparison between Finland and Sweden
COVID-19 Modified mRNA “Vaccines”: Lessons Learned from Clinical Trials, Mass Vaccination, and the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex, Part 1
COVID-19 Pandemic Planning Scenarios
COVID-19 vaccinations data
COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report, Week 5 2022
COVID-19 vaccine-associated mortality in the Southern Hemisphere
COVID-19 Weekly Surveillance in NSW: Epidemiological Week 52 ending 1 January 2022
Covid-19-Navigating the Uncharted
COVID-19: stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified
Covid-19: US tracker overestimated deaths among children
Current Hospital Capacity Estimates - Snapshot
Dataset: Deaths occurring between 1 January 2021 and 31 May 2022 edition of this dataset
Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: week ending 23 December 2022
Deborah Birx: If Someone Dies w/ COVID-19, We Are Counting That As a COVID-19 Death
Denis Rancourt on worldwide, all-cause mortality
Effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines on covid-19 related symptoms, hospital admissions, and mortality in older adults in England: test negative case-control study
Elapsed time since BNT162b2 vaccine and risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection: test negative design study
Estimated COVID-19 Burden
Estimating the infection fatality ratio in England
Evaluating Data Integrity and Reporting Challenges in Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19 Data Collection in Washington State
Excess Deaths in the United Kingdom: Midazolam and Euthanasia in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Excess mortality in Germany 2020-2022
Excess Weight and COVID-19: Insights from new evidence
Federal Register, Vol. 85, No. 216
Freedom of Information (FOI) request: COVID-19 deaths and autopsies Feb 2020 to Dec 2021
Gibraltar cancels Christmas celebrations amid Covid spike
Global perspective of COVID-19 epidemiology for a full-cycle pandemic
Group Life COVID-19 Mortality Survey Report
Guidance for Certifying Deaths Due to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Hearing Transcript: The Urgent Need for a National Plan to Contain the Coronavirus
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