What could explain the lower COVID-19 burden in Africa despite considerable circulation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus?

RG Wamai, JL Hirsch, W Van Damme… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The differential spread and impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), causing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), across regions is a major …

Climate change: how it impacts the emergence, transmission, resistance and consequences of viral infections in animals and plants

SP Dash, P Dipankar, PS Burange… - Critical reviews in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has made us wonder what led to its occurrence and what
can be done to avoid such events in the future. As we document, one changing …

A global country‐level analysis of the relationship between obesity and COVID‐19 cases and mortality

O Foo, S Hiu, D Teare, AA Syed… - Diabetes, Obesity and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To assess the association of country‐level obesity prevalence with COVID‐19 case and
mortality rates, to evaluate the impact of obesity prevalence on worldwide variation. Methods …

Outcomes among 10,314 hospitalized COVID‐19 patients at a tertiary care government hospital in Delhi, India

V Malhotra, S Basu, N Sharma, S Kumar… - Journal of medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A significant proportion of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) require timely
hospitalization to reduce the risk of complications and mortality. We describe the trends of …

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis: losing our immunity when we need it the most

A Ghanemi, M Yoshioka, J St-Amand - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary With the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis, humans
have developed new habits and adapted to a novel socioeconomic reality. Indeed …

Behavioral and Dietary Habits That Could Influence Both COVID-19 and Non-Communicable Civilization Disease Prevention—What Have We Learned Up to Now?

M Veljković, DR Pavlović, NM Stojanović, T Džopalić… - Medicina, 2022 - mdpi.com
The massive expansion of the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has urged countries to
introduce lockdowns and set restrictive actions worldwide. The focus of the studies was to …

Global trends in COVID-19 incidence and case fatality rates (2019–2023): a retrospective analysis

J Du, H Lang, Y Ma, A Chen, Y Qin, X Zhang… - Frontiers in Public …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Objectives Analyzing and comparing COVID-19 infection and case-fatality rates across
different regions can help improve our response to future pandemics. Methods We used …

[HTML][HTML] Meta-analysis and comprehensive study of coronavirus outbreaks: SARS, MERS and COVID-19

E Berber, D Sumbria, N Çanakoğlu - Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Zoonotic coronaviruses have caused several endemic and pandemic situations
around the world. SARS caused the first epidemic alert at the beginning of this century …

SARS‐CoV‐2 infection in India bucks the trend: Trained innate immunity?

S Chinnaswamy - American Journal of Human Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract SARS‐CoV‐2, the causative agent of COVID‐19 pandemic caught the world
unawares by its sudden onset in early 2020. Memories of the 1918 Spanish Flu were …

Global mobility and the threat of pandemics: Evidence from three centuries

MA Clemens, T Ginn - 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the
expected costs and benefits of mobility. Given the ever-present threat of new, future …