COVID-19 and Africa: Surviving between a rock and a hard place

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• dc.contributor.author Aranzabal, Maite de
• dc.contributor.author Fumadó, Victoria
• dc.contributor.author Alegria Coll, Iñaki
• dc.contributor.author Rivera, Mercedes
• dc.contributor.author Torre, Nuria
• dc.contributor.author Guibert, Belen
• dc.contributor.author Muñoz, María José
• dc.contributor.author Moraleda, Cinta
• dc.contributor.author Bassat, Quique
• dc.contributor.author Grupo de Cooperación internacional de la Asociación Española de Pediatría (AEP)
• dc.date.accessioned 2021-05-19T07:29:53Z
• dc.date.available 2021-05-19T07:29:53Z
• dc.date.issued 2020
• dc.description.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.
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• dc.identifier.citation Aranzabal M de, Fumadó V, Alegria I, Rivera M, Torre N, Guibert B, Muñoz MJ, et al. COVID-19 and Africa: Surviving between a rock and a hard place. An Pediatr (Engl Ed). 2020 Dec; 93(6): 420.e1-420.e6. DOI: 10.1016/j.anpede.2020.11.001
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anpede.2020.11.001
• dc.identifier.issn 2341-2879
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/47595
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Elsevier
• dc.rights 2341-2879/© 2020 Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. on behalf of Asociación Española de Pediatría. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Africa
• dc.subject.keyword COVID-19
• dc.subject.keyword Epidemiology
• dc.subject.keyword Low-income countries
• dc.subject.keyword Pandemic
• dc.title COVID-19 and Africa: Surviving between a rock and a hard place
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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