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The Effect of Gender on COVID-19 Infections and Mortality in Germany: Insights from Age- and Sex-Specific Modelling of Contact Rates, Infections, and Deaths
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2020
unpublished
BackgroundRecent research points towards age- and sex-specific transmission of COVID-19 infections and their outcomes. The effect of sex, however, has been overlooked in past modelling approaches of COVID-19 infections. Aim: The aim of our study is to develop an age- and sex-specific model of COVID-19 transmission and to explore how contact changes effect COVID-19 infection and death rates. MethodWe consider a compartment model to establish forecasts of the COVID-19 epidemic, in which the
doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-116487/v1
fatcat:k6mgc5ctlnb6fg47dflp2f5osu