Recent reports suggest that high‐altitude residence may be beneficial in the novel
coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) implicating that traveling to high places or using hypoxic …

Pun, Matiram, Rachel Turner, Giacomo Strapazzon, Hermann Brugger, and Erik R.
Swenson. Lower incidence of COVID-19 at high altitude: Facts and confounders. High Alt …

Background Multiple studies have attempted to elucidate the relationship between chronic
hypoxia and SARS-CoV-2 infection. It seems that high-altitude is associated with lower …

Woolcott, Orison O., and Richard N. Bergman. Mortality attributed to COVID-19 in high-
altitude populations. High Alt Med Biol. 21: 409–416, 2020. Background: Since partial …

Abstract Background The SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic has claimed nearly 900,000
lives worldwide and infected more than 27 million people. Researchers worldwide are …

Abstract Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is a pandemic caused by Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It is suggested that life at high altitude …

In the present study we analyze the epidemiological data of COVID-19 of Tibet and high-
altitude regions of Bolivia and Ecuador, and compare to lowland data, to test the hypothesis …

Thomson, Timothy M., Fresia Casas, Harold Andre Guerrero, Rómulo Figueroa-Mujíca,
Francisco C. Villafuerte, and Claudia Machicado. Potential protective effect from COVID-19 …

Existing studies reported higher altitudes reduce the COVID-19 infection rate in the United
States, Colombia, and Peru. However, the underlying reasons for this phenomenon remain …

We have read with interest the short communication published by Segovia-Juarez et al.,
2020 in Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology establishing that high altitude reduces the …