TY - JOUR PY - 2017// TI - Erratum: vol. 66, no. 17 -- Vital signs: racial disparities in age-specific mortality among blacks or african americans - united states, 1999-2015 JO - MMWR: Morbidity and mortality weekly report SP - 490 EP - 490 VL - 66 IS - 18 N2 - In the report "Vital Signs: Racial Disparities in Age-Specific Mortality Among Blacks or African Americans - United States, 1999-2015," on page 446, under "Results," the last sentence of the first paragraph should have read "Among adults aged ≥65 years, the death rate in 2015 relative to that in 1999 declined 27% for blacks and 17% for whites, resulting in a crossover in death rates after 2010, when blacks had lower age-specific death rates than whites."
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