Comprehensive review of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Chauhan, Sunita

doi:10.1016/j.bj.2020.05.023

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“…By March 2020, the daily new cases were higher outside China than within [1]. By May 2020, over four million cases were reported across 187 countries [2]. The global case number has since passed 10 million, with almost 500,000 deaths.…”

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United States County-level COVID-19 Death Rates and Case Fatality Rates Vary by Region and Urban Status

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COVID-19 is a global pandemic with uncertain death rates. We examined county-level population morality rates (per 100,000) and case fatality rates by US region and rural-urban classification, while controlling for demographic, socioeconomic, and hospital variables. We found that population mortality rates and case fatality rates were significantly different across region, rural-urban classification, and their interaction. All significant comparisons had p < 0.001. Northeast counties had the highest population mortality rates (27.4) but had similar case fatality rates (5.9%) compared to other regions except the Southeast, which had significantly lower rates (4.1%). Population mortality rates were highest in urban counties but conversely, case fatality rates were highest in rural counties. Death rates in the Northeast were driven by urban areas (e.g., small, East Coast states), while case fatality rates tended to be highest in the most rural counties for all regions, especially the Southwest. However, on further inspection, high case fatality rate percentages in the Southwest, as well as in overall US counties, were driven by a low case number. This makes it hard to distinguish genuinely higher mortality or an artifact of a small sample size. In summary, coronavirus deaths are not homogenous across the United States but instead vary by region and population and highlight the importance of fine-scale analysis.

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United States County-level COVID-19 Death Rates and Case Fatality Rates Vary by Region and Urban Status

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“…Coronavirus-2019 (COVID- 19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. The novel coronavirus was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on January 30, 2020 and declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO) [6]. Most people infected with the COVID-19 virus experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment [8].…”

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“…It is thought to spread mainly from person to person, mainly through respiratory or aerosol droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes, or sometimes through touching infected surfaces [9]. Infections can occur when enough volume of the virus enters the respiratory system through the mouth or nose through these respiratory or aerosol droplets, or by touching one's face after contracting sufficient volume of viral particles from touching contaminated surfaces [6]. The median incubation period of COVID-19 is estimated at 5.1 days and most cases who develop symptoms will do so within 14 days [18].…”

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COVID-Track: World and USA SARS-COV-2 Testing and COVID-19 Tracking

Zohner

Morris

2020

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Background The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major health and socio-economic disruptions worldwide. Accurate investigation of emerging data is crucial to inform policy makers as they construct viral mitigation strategies. Complications such as variable testing rates and time lags in counting cases, hospitalizations and deaths make it challenging to accurately track and identify true infectious surges from available data, and requires a multi-modal approach that simultaneously considers testing, incidence, hospitalizations, and deaths. Although many websites and applications report a subset of these data, none of them provide graphical displays capable of comparing different states or countries on all these measures as well as various useful quantities derived from them. Here we introduce a freely available graphical application that allows the user to simultaneously assess time trends in these measures and compare various states or countries, equipping them with a tool to investigate the potential effects of the different mitigation strategies and timelines used by various jurisdictions. Findings COVID-TRACK is a Python based web-application that provides a platform for tracking testing, incidence, hospitalizations, and deaths related to COVID-19 along with various derived quantities. Our application makes the comparison across states or countries in the world easy to explore, with useful transformation options including per capita, log scale, and/or moving averages. We illustrate its use by assessing various viral trends in the USA and Europe. Conclusion The COVID-TRACK web-application is a user-friendly analytical tool to compare data and trends related to the COVID-19 pandemic across areas in the United States and worldwide. Our tracking tool provides a unique platform where trends can be monitored across geographical areas in the coming months to watch how the pandemic waxes and wanes throughout the summer and into a potential second wave in the fall.

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“…The Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID- 19), initiated by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), has become an international apprehension [1]. The COVID-19 has been acknowledged as a pandemic, wherein millions of people are suffering from it [2].…”

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“…This disease is mainly transmitted from one person to another via sneezing or coughing. An individual can also be infected by touching the SARS-CoV-2 contaminated surfaces followed by touching the mouth, eye, and nose with the contaminated body part [1,3]. Currently, this infectious disease does not have any proper treatment [2].…”

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Awareness of COVID-19 among the General Population of the Northern Border Region of Saudi Arabia

Alshrari

2020

JPRI

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The pandemic Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) is an international apprehension, and there exists no effective treatment for it. Therefore, educating people about the necessary information regarding COVID-19 has become an essential tool to fight against COVID-19. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the awareness of COVID-19 among the general people of the Northern Border Region of Saudi Arabia (NBRSA). A self-administered questionnaire containing basic questions was designed and shared with the people after taking their consent. A total of 249 people participated in this study. The data was collected and analyzed. This study has been revealed that the general public of the NBRSA has a passable knowledge of the specific information about the COVID-19. However, the public is not satisfactorily aware of the complications associated with COVID-19. Accordingly, COVID-19 related education programs should be conducted regularly to increase the awareness of the general public of the NBRSA for COVID-19.

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Comprehensive review of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Cited by 147 publications

References 21 publications

United States County-level COVID-19 Death Rates and Case Fatality Rates Vary by Region and Urban Status

United States County-level COVID-19 Death Rates and Case Fatality Rates Vary by Region and Urban Status

COVID-Track: World and USA SARS-COV-2 Testing and COVID-19 Tracking

Awareness of COVID-19 among the General Population of the Northern Border Region of Saudi Arabia

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