Covid-19 mortality in children and adolescents in Mexico.

Salud Publica Mex

Centro de Investigación en Salud Poblacional, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. Cuernavaca, Mexico/Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H., Chan School of Public Health. Boston, United States.

Published: June 2022

Objective: To estimate Covid-19 and pre-pandemic low respiratory infection (LRI) mortality in children and adolescents in Mexico.

Materials And Methods: We estimated the percentage of total mortality attributable to Covid-19 (95% confidence intervals; 95%CI) and made the corresponding estimates for pre-pandemic LRI mortality.

Results: In 2019, LRIs represented 8.6% (95%CI 8.3, 8.9) of deaths in children aged 0-9 years, and 2.0% (95%CI 1.8, 2.3) in those aged 10-19 years. In 2020, the corresponding estimates for Covid-19 were 4.4% (95%CI 4.1, 4.6) and 3.7% (95%CI 3.4, 4.1).

Conclusions: Relative to LRI, Covid-19 may be exerting a considerable mortality burden, particularly in older children and adolescents.

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