Volume 45 - Article 45 | Pages 1355–1372
COVID-19 fatality in Germany: Demographic determinants of variation in case-fatality rates across and within German federal states during the first and second waves
By Saskia Morwinsky, Natalie Nitsche, Enrique Acosta
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