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Disentangling the relationship between cancer mortality and COVID-19 in the US

1. Chelsea L Hansen
2. Cécile Viboud
3. Lone Simonsen

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This valuable work explores death coding data to understand the impact of COVID-19 on cancer mortality. The work provides solid evidence that deaths with cancer as a contributing cause were not above what would be expected during pandemic waves, suggesting that cancer did not strongly increase the risk of dying of COVID-19. These results are an interesting exploration into the coding of causes of death that can be used to make sense of how deaths are coded during a pandemic in the presence of other underlying diseases, such as cancer.

Reviewed by eLife

Development of a simple and highly sensitive virion concentration method to detect SARS-CoV-2 in saliva

1. Yasuko Yamazaki
2. Uxía Alonso Alonso
3. Remil L. Galay
4. Wataru Yamazaki

Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases