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Title: | COVID-19 and Africa: Surviving between a rock and a hard place |
Author: | Aranzabal, Maite de Fumadó, Victoria Alegria, Iñaki Rivera, Mercedes Torre, Nuria Guibert, Belen Muñoz, María José Moraleda, Cinta Bassat Orellana, Quique Grupo de Cooperación internacional de la Asociación Española de Pediatría (AEP) |
Keywords: | Pandèmia de COVID-19, 2020- Àfrica Epidemiologia COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- Africa Epidemiology |
Issue Date: | 2020 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Abstract: | With over 575,000 deaths and about 13.3 million cases globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a terrible impact globally during the 6 months since cases were first detected in China. Conscious of the many challenges presented in settings with abundance of resources and with robust health systems, where mortality has been significant and transmission difficult to control, there was a logical concern to see how the virus could impact African countries, and their fragile and weak health systems. Such an anticipated "tsunami", with potentially devastating consequences, seems however to not have yet arrived, and African countries, albeit witnessing an increasing degree of autochthonous transmission, seem to this day relatively unaffected by the pandemic. In this article we review the current situation of the pandemic in the African continent, trying to understand the determinants of its slow progress. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anpedi.2020.07.007 |
It is part of: | Anales de Pediatria, 2020, vol. 93, num. 6, p. 420.e1-420.e6 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/183389 |
Related resource: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anpedi.2020.07.007 |
ISSN: | 1695-4033 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal) |
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