Surviving through the COVID-19 pandemic!

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“…Despite the challenges of the COVID19 pandemic, Ibnosina Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences survived last year with a record number of articles of various topics and formats. [1] Among the Tsunami in COVID19-focused publications [2] , 3509 PubMed records involved the Middle East and North Africa and 4855 involved Arabic-speaking countries out of a total of 114,988 records detected at the time of writing of this editorial (March 22, 2021). We would have been happier if more articles of regional concerns on COVID-19 were submitted to regional and national journals rather than to other far away journals that may have not been accessed by readers from our region nor have the interests of the region in the center of their interests.…”