COVID-19 Pandemic: Is Africa Different?
COVID-19 has now spread to all the continents of the world with the possible exception of Antarctica. However, Africa appears different when compared with all the other continents. The absence of exponential growth and the low mortality rates contrary to that experienced in other continents, and con...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:7607238 2023-05-15T13:57:32+02:00 COVID-19 Pandemic: Is Africa Different? Bamgboye, Ebun L. Omiye, Jesutofunmi A. Afolaranmi, Oluwasegun J. Davids, Mogamat Razeen Tannor, Elliot Koranteng Wadee, Shoyab Niang, Abdou Were, Anthony Naicker, Saraladevi 2020-11-03 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7607238/ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnma.2020.10.001 en eng by the National Medical Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7607238/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnma.2020.10.001 © 2020 by the National Medical Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. J Natl Med Assoc Opinion Paper Text 2020 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnma.2020.10.001 2020-11-08T02:04:06Z COVID-19 has now spread to all the continents of the world with the possible exception of Antarctica. However, Africa appears different when compared with all the other continents. The absence of exponential growth and the low mortality rates contrary to that experienced in other continents, and contrary to the projections for Africa by various agencies, including the World Health Organization (WHO) has been a puzzle to many. Although Africa is the second most populous continent with an estimated 17.2% of the world's population, the continent accounts for only 5% of the total cases and 3% of the mortality. Mortality for the whole of Africa remains at a reported 19,726 as at August 01, 2020. The onset of the pandemic was later, the rate of rise has been slower and the severity of illness and case fatality rates have been lower in comparison to other continents. In addition, contrary to what had been documented in other continents, the occurrence of the renal complications in these patients also appeared to be much lower. This report documents the striking differences between the continents and within the continent of Africa itself and then attempts to explain the reasons for these differences. It is hoped that information presented in this review will help policymakers in the fight to contain the pandemic, particularly within Africa with its resource-constrained health care systems. Text Antarc* Antarctica PubMed Central (PMC) Journal of the National Medical Association 113 3 324 335 |
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COVID-19 has now spread to all the continents of the world with the possible exception of Antarctica. However, Africa appears different when compared with all the other continents. The absence of exponential growth and the low mortality rates contrary to that experienced in other continents, and contrary to the projections for Africa by various agencies, including the World Health Organization (WHO) has been a puzzle to many. Although Africa is the second most populous continent with an estimated 17.2% of the world's population, the continent accounts for only 5% of the total cases and 3% of the mortality. Mortality for the whole of Africa remains at a reported 19,726 as at August 01, 2020. The onset of the pandemic was later, the rate of rise has been slower and the severity of illness and case fatality rates have been lower in comparison to other continents. In addition, contrary to what had been documented in other continents, the occurrence of the renal complications in these patients also appeared to be much lower. This report documents the striking differences between the continents and within the continent of Africa itself and then attempts to explain the reasons for these differences. It is hoped that information presented in this review will help policymakers in the fight to contain the pandemic, particularly within Africa with its resource-constrained health care systems. |
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Bamgboye, Ebun L. Omiye, Jesutofunmi A. Afolaranmi, Oluwasegun J. Davids, Mogamat Razeen Tannor, Elliot Koranteng Wadee, Shoyab Niang, Abdou Were, Anthony Naicker, Saraladevi |
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© 2020 by the National Medical Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
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