Table 2.

Correlations with national values of apparent COVID-19 case fatality rates.

Potential cofactor	Correlations with COVID-19 case fatality rate statistics by date
	December 30	November 20	October 16
Kidney disease	0.269	0.289	0.176
Household size	0.225	0.228	0.126
Heart disease	0.204	0.194	0.099
Asthma	0.165	0.168	0.091
Diabetes deaths	0.133	0.148	0.05
COVID-19 deaths per 1 million persons	0.092	0.07	0.17
Percentage of the population living in slums	0.090	0.072	0.059
Hypertension	0.051	0.049	–0.011
Influenza/pneumonia	0.034	0.040	–0.020
Malnutrition	0.017	0.002	–0.037
Lung disease	0.013	0.024	–0.112
Random number	0.009	–0.024	0.026
Percentage of the population with diabetes	0.009	0.046	–0.043
Population	–0.013	0.000	–0.014
Percentage of the population with obesity	–0.017	–0.006	0.014
Percentage of the population aged ≥65 years	–0.081	–0.103	0.028
COVID-19 cases per 1 million persons	–0.153	–0.163	–0.086
Health care expenditure	–0.155	–0.143	–0.02
Lung cancers	–0.159	–0.179	–0.098
Life expectancy	–0.163	–0.152	–0.055
Median age	–0.179	–0.191	–0.074
World Health Organization Universal Health Coverage index	–0.197	–0.168	–0.076
Percentage of the population living in cities	–0.197	–0.177	–0.121
Adjusted gross domestic product	–0.23	–0.215	–0.119
COVID-19 tests per 1 million persons	–0.287	–0.257	–0.111