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cord-335213-0cji7tzq	Dowd, Jennifer Beam	Demographic science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19	2020-05-05		.txt	text/plain	1990	108	50	We examine the role of age structure in deaths thus far in Italy and South Korea and illustrate how the pandemic could unfold in populations with similar population sizes but different age structures, showing a dramatically higher burden of mortality in countries with older versus younger populations. We examine the role of age structure in deaths thus far in Italy and South Korea and illustrate how the pandemic could unfold in populations with similar population sizes but different age structures, showing a dramatically higher burden of mortality in countries with older versus younger populations. Fig. 1 contains population pyramids to illustrate how population age structure interacts with high COVID-19 mortality rates at older ages to generate large differences across populations in the number of deaths, holding constant assumed rates of infection prevalence (10%) and age−sex-specific CFRs (Italy) (14) .	./cache/cord-335213-0cji7tzq.txt	./txt/cord-335213-0cji7tzq.txt