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Article History

Received: 27 February 2023

Accepted: 14 December 2023

First Online: 16 July 2024

Declarations

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: Ethical approval was granted by The London Bromley Research Ethics Committee (reference (20/HRA/1871)) to the King’s Health Partners Data Analytics and Modelling COVID-19 Group to collect clinically relevant data points from patient’s electronic health records. Under this ethical approval it was deemed acceptable that individual patient informed consent could not be obtained due to the retrospective nature of this data collection therefore it was waived by The London Bromley Research Ethics Committee. Access to Lambeth DataNet was under a project-specific approval granted by Lambeth Public Health Caldicott Guardian, 26 June 2020; additional informed consent for use of this dataset was not required under the terms of the initial ethical approvals in place.All research was carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations complied with the Helsinki declaration.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.