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COVID-19 pandemic: examining the faces of spatial differences in the morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and USA

2020-04-24

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<h4>Background</h4> COVID-19, the disease associated with the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is currently a global pandemic with several thousands of confirmed cases of infection and death. However, the death rate across affected countries shows variation deserving of critical evaluation. <h4>Methods</h4> In this study, we evaluated differentials in COVID-19 confirmed cases of infecti...

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Literature Corpus work: d06a3b02-c5fd-5629-8f11-dc3845df7433
DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.20.20072322

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