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Medicine’s Rong Xu discussed COVID-19 death rates in older populations

MEDIA | August 8, 2022
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The Denver Post: Rong Xu, professor at the School of Medicine, said it’s possible that the death rates in older populations by COVID-19 in 2020 set the stage for at least a temporary decrease in death rates the following year.