The study protocol underwent ethical review and was approved by the National Ethics Committee of the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (study number 2020-001) on 20 April 2020. We received de-identified individual death and hospital admission data requiring no individual informed consent form. Only the research team had access to the data sets.
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