Spatiotemporal dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic in the arctic: early data and emerging trends
Since February 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic has been unfolding in the Arctic, placing many communities at risk due to remoteness, limited healthcare options, underlying health issues and other compounding factors. Preliminary analysis of available COVID-19 data in the Arctic at the regional (subnation...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:382f5aec59a349db9d444b356ae132c6 2023-05-15T14:33:49+02:00 Spatiotemporal dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic in the arctic: early data and emerging trends Andrey N. Petrov Mark Welford Nikolay Golosov John DeGroote Tatiana Degai Alexander Savelyev 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2020.1835251 https://doaj.org/article/382f5aec59a349db9d444b356ae132c6 EN eng Taylor & Francis Group http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2020.1835251 https://doaj.org/toc/2242-3982 2242-3982 doi:10.1080/22423982.2020.1835251 https://doaj.org/article/382f5aec59a349db9d444b356ae132c6 International Journal of Circumpolar Health, Vol 79, Iss 1 (2020) covid-19 arctic regions pandemic trends mortality Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 article 2020 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2020.1835251 2022-12-31T12:41:55Z Since February 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic has been unfolding in the Arctic, placing many communities at risk due to remoteness, limited healthcare options, underlying health issues and other compounding factors. Preliminary analysis of available COVID-19 data in the Arctic at the regional (subnational) level suggests that COVID-19 infections and mortality were highly variable, but generally remained below respective national levels. Based on the trends and magnitude of the pandemic through July, we classify Arctic regions into four groups: Iceland, Faroe Islands, Northern Norway, and Northern Finland with elevated early incidence rates, but where strict quarantines and other measures promptly curtailed the pandemic; Northern Sweden and Alaska, where the initial wave of infections persisted amid weak (Sweden) or variable (Alaska) quarantine measures; Northern Russia characterised by the late start and subsequent steep growth of COVID-19 cases and fatalities and multiple outbreaks; and Northern Canada and Greenland with no significant proliferation of the pandemic. Despite limitations in available data, further efforts to track and analyse the pandemic at the pan-Arctic, regional and local scales are crucial. This includes understanding of the COVID-19 patterns, mortality and morbidity, the relationships with public-health conditions, socioeconomic characteristics, policies, and experiences of the Indigenous Peoples. Data used in this paper are available at https://arctic.uni.edu/arctic-covid-19. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Circumpolar Health Faroe Islands Greenland Iceland International Journal of Circumpolar Health Northern Finland Northern Norway Northern Sweden Alaska Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Faroe Islands Canada Greenland Norway International Journal of Circumpolar Health 79 1 1835251 |
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Since February 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic has been unfolding in the Arctic, placing many communities at risk due to remoteness, limited healthcare options, underlying health issues and other compounding factors. Preliminary analysis of available COVID-19 data in the Arctic at the regional (subnational) level suggests that COVID-19 infections and mortality were highly variable, but generally remained below respective national levels. Based on the trends and magnitude of the pandemic through July, we classify Arctic regions into four groups: Iceland, Faroe Islands, Northern Norway, and Northern Finland with elevated early incidence rates, but where strict quarantines and other measures promptly curtailed the pandemic; Northern Sweden and Alaska, where the initial wave of infections persisted amid weak (Sweden) or variable (Alaska) quarantine measures; Northern Russia characterised by the late start and subsequent steep growth of COVID-19 cases and fatalities and multiple outbreaks; and Northern Canada and Greenland with no significant proliferation of the pandemic. Despite limitations in available data, further efforts to track and analyse the pandemic at the pan-Arctic, regional and local scales are crucial. This includes understanding of the COVID-19 patterns, mortality and morbidity, the relationships with public-health conditions, socioeconomic characteristics, policies, and experiences of the Indigenous Peoples. Data used in this paper are available at https://arctic.uni.edu/arctic-covid-19. |
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Andrey N. Petrov Mark Welford Nikolay Golosov John DeGroote Tatiana Degai Alexander Savelyev |
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Andrey N. Petrov Mark Welford Nikolay Golosov John DeGroote Tatiana Degai Alexander Savelyev |
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic in the arctic: early data and emerging trends |
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic in the arctic: early data and emerging trends |
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic in the arctic: early data and emerging trends |
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spatiotemporal dynamics of the covid-19 pandemic in the arctic: early data and emerging trends |
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