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Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Common factors of COVID-19 cases and deaths among most affected 50 countries

 Md ManjurMorshedShowmitra KumarSarkar

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2021.102247

PDF: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871402121002678/pdfft?md5=1910bd7bc0421e885c9efd8202f9697e&pid=1-s2.0-S1871402121002678-main.pdf

Highlights

The objective to explore the common factors of COVID-19 cases and deaths among the 50 most-affected countries.

A total of 14 indicators are used to explain the COVID-19 cases and deaths.

Ordinary least square statistics are used to find the significant factors affecting the number of cases and deaths.

Obesity is found to be a common factor for the number of COVID-19 cases and consequent deaths.

Our findings call for global awareness about obesity and investment in health infrastructure for a pandemic adaptive future.

Abstract

Aims

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a global pandemic requiring global responses. The objective of this paper is to identify the common factors of COVID-19 cases and deaths among the 50 most affected countries.

Methods

We performed Ordinary least squares among a wide range of socio-economic, environmental, climatic and health indicators to explain the number of cases and deaths.

Results

The findings are: (i) obesity is the only significant global denominator for the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths; (ii) the percentage of the population over the age of 65 and number of hospital beds per 1000 population inversely correlated to mortality from COVID-19.

Conclusions

Obesity increases vulnerability to COVID-19 infections and mortality. Global awareness of obesity and social investment in health infrastructure are pre-requisite for a pandemic adaptive future. However, the study is limited to cross-sectional data of April 17, 2020.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871402121002678

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