Global trends in COVID-19 incidence and case fatality rates (2019-2023): a retrospective analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Analyzing and comparing COVID-19 infection and case-fatality rates across different regions can help improve our response to future pandemics.

Methods

We used public data from the WHO to calculate and compare the COVID-19 infection and case-fatality rates in different continents and income levels from 2019 to 2023.

Results

The Global prevalence of COVID-19 increased from 0.011 to 0.098, while case fatality rates declined from 0.024 to 0.009. Europe reported the highest cumulative infection rate (0.326), with Africa showing the lowest (0.011). Conversely, Africa experienced the highest cumulative case fatality rates (0.020), with Oceania the lowest (0.002). Infection rates in Asia showed a steady increase in contrast to other continents which observed initia

SUBMITTER: Du J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11317462 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature