Trends and cross-country inequities by region, sex, age in the mortality, incidence, and disability-adjusted life years of COVID-19: Analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

• Xiao-Han Xu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Multi-organ Injury Prevention and Treatment, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, China

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• Jing Sun,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Rural Health Research Institute, Charles Sturt University, Orange, New South Wales, Australia, Honorary Professor, Data Science Institute, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Honorary Professor, Heart Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Adjunct professor, School of Health Sciences and Social Work, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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• Jin-Lun Zhang,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Multi-organ Injury Prevention and Treatment, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Zhou Yang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ouchunquan@hotmail.com (CQO); yang_zhoucn@163.com (ZY)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Multi-organ Injury Prevention and Treatment, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Chun-Quan Ou

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ouchunquan@hotmail.com (CQO); yang_zhoucn@163.com (ZY)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Multi-organ Injury Prevention and Treatment, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6866-7213

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