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Impact of age-structure and vaccine prioritization on COVID-19 in West Africa

2022-07-05

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been a major global health challenge since its emergence in 2019. Contrary to early predictions that sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) would bear a disproportionate share of the burden of COVID-19 due to the region’s vulnerability to other infectious diseases, weak healthcare systems, and socioeconomic conditions, the pandemic’s effects in SSA have been very mild in comparison to other reg...

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Literature Corpus work: e8991511-1d12-56d5-a5e9-00d4edeebdbe
DOI: 10.1101/2022.07.03.22277195

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