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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jul 31.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet Infect Dis. 2023 Dec 20;24(4):361–374. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(23)00630-8

Table 2:

In-hospital CFR estimates for children with RSV-associated ALRI before and during the pandemic period by World Bank income region

January-December, 2019 (from this study) January-December, 2019 (from Li et al, 2022)2 January, 2020-May, 2022

High-income region
Age 0 to <12 months
 Number of studies 8 29 11
 In-hospital CFR, % (95% UI) 0⋅1% (<0⋅1 to 1⋅3) 0⋅1% (0⋅1 to 0⋅3) <0⋅1% (<0⋅1 to 2⋅1)
Age 12 to <60 months
 Number of studies 7 17 8
 In-hospital CFR, % (95% UI) 0⋅3% (<0⋅1 to 2⋅2) 0⋅2% (0⋅1 to 0⋅4) 0⋅1% (<0⋅1 to 5⋅3)
Age 0 to <60 months
 Number of studies 7 26 11
 In-hospital CFR, % (95% UI) 0⋅1% (<0⋅1 to 0⋅5) 0⋅1% (0⋅1 to 0⋅2) 0⋅1% (<0⋅1 to 0⋅8)
Upper-middle income region
Age 0 to <12 months
 Number of studies 10 27 10
 In-hospital CFR, % (95% UI) 0⋅4% (0⋅1 to 1⋅0) 0⋅8% (0⋅5 to 1⋅3) <0⋅1% (<0⋅1 to 67)
Age 0 to <60 months
 Number of studies 10 30 11
 In-hospital CFR, % (95% UI) 0⋅2% (0⋅1 to 0⋅7) 0⋅6% (0⋅3 to 1⋅0) <0⋅1% (<0⋅1 to 10⋅0)
Lower-middle-income region
Age 0 to <12 months
 Number of studies 1 22 1
 In-hospital CFR, % (95% UI) 1⋅9% (0⋅5 to 7⋅4) 1⋅5% (0⋅7 to 3⋅2) 2⋅2% (0⋅6 to 8⋅4)
Age 0 to <60 months
 Number of studies 1 26 1
 In-hospital CFR, % (95% UI) 17% (0⋅4 to 6⋅5) 0⋅8% (0⋅4 to 1⋅5) 17% (0⋅4 to 6⋅6)

CFR=case fatality ratio. RSV=respiratory syncytial virus. ALRI=acute lower respiratory infection. UI=uncertainty interval.