CORRIGENDUM

Corrigendum: The intersection of age, sex, race and socioeconomic status in COVID-19 hospital admissions and deaths in South Africa

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Corrigendum: The intersection of age, sex, race and socio-economic status in COVID-19 hospital admissions and deaths in South Africa [S Afr J Sci. 2022;118(5/6), Art. #13323]. S Afr J Sci. 2022;118(7/8), Art. #13323C. https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2022/13323C

[Original article] Jassat W, Ozougwu L, Munshi S, Mudara C, Vika C, Arendse T, et al. The intersection of age, sex, race and socio-economic status in COVID-19 hospital admissions and deaths in South Africa. S Afr J Sci. 2022:118(5/6), Art. #13323. https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2022/13323

The following terminology was erroneously reported: "non-white race" should be "people of colour", or "black African, coloured and people of Indian descent".

The error appears in the following instances:

Page 1, abstract, line 1 and 14

Page 1, under Introduction, paragraph 2, line 6

Page 11, under 'Higher risk of mortality among non-white patients', column 1, sub-heading

Page 11, under 'Higher risk of mortality among non-white patients', column 1, paragraph 1, lines 2, 5 and 9

Page 11, under 'Higher risk of mortality among non-white patients', column 2, paragraph 1, line 2

Page 12, under 'Higher risk of mortality among non-white patients', column 1, paragraph 3, line 10

Page 12, under 'Socio-economic status', column 1, paragraph 1, lines 1, 3, 6, 16 and 21

Page 12, under 'Healthcare access', column 2, paragraph 4, lines 3 and 13