Sex- and Age-Specific Differences in COVID-19 Testing, Cases, and Outcomes: A Population-Wide Study in Ontario, Canada

Nathan M Stall; Wei Wu; Lauren Lapointe-Shaw; David N Fisman; Vasily Giannakeas; Michael P Hillmer; Paula A Rochon

doi:10.1111/jgs.16761

Sex- and Age-Specific Differences in COVID-19 Testing, Cases, and Outcomes: A Population-Wide Study in Ontario, Canada

J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 Oct;68(10):2188-2191. doi: 10.1111/jgs.16761. Epub 2020 Aug 15.

Authors

Nathan M Stall^{1

2

3

4}, Wei Wu¹, Lauren Lapointe-Shaw^{2

3}, David N Fisman^{3

5}, Vasily Giannakeas^{1

5

6}, Michael P Hillmer^{4

7}, Paula A Rochon^{1

3

4

6}

Affiliations

¹ Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Sinai Health System and the University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁷ Capacity Planning and Analytics, Ontario Ministry of Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

PMID: 32743827
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.16761

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Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Age Distribution
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
COVID-19 / diagnosis
COVID-19 / mortality*
COVID-19 Nucleic Acid Testing / statistics & numerical data*
Child
Child, Preschool
Cross-Sectional Studies
Hospitalization / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Middle Aged
Ontario / epidemiology
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2
Sex Distribution
Young Adult