id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-274028-dvsvtsn0 Del Brutto, Oscar H. SARS-CoV-2-related mortality in a rural Latin American population 2020-08-08 .txt text/plain 1217 74 60 Here, we report SARS-CoV-2 mortality rates in Atahualpa residents aged ≥18 years. Twenty-J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f seven out of the 29 deaths likely related to SARS-CoV-2 were individuals aged ≥60 years, as were seven out of 11 deaths from unrelated causes (p=0.039). The overall mortality rate in Atahualpa residents aged ≥18 years was 21.6 per 1,000 population (95% C.I.: 15.9 -29.2), almost three-quarters of it due to SARS-CoV-2 (15.7 per 1,000; 95% C.I.: 11 -22.4 ). When SARS-CoV-2 mortality rate was calculated in the subset of individuals aged ≥60 years, it raised up to 68.9 per 1,000 (95% C.I.: 47. In Atahualpa, SARS-CoV-2 rapidly spread across the village, markedly increasing mortality during April and May, 2020 (Figure 1) , and infecting 45% of the adult population, in just a few months [6] . ./cache/cord-274028-dvsvtsn0.txt ./txt/cord-274028-dvsvtsn0.txt