Updated Surveillance Metrics and History of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-2023) in Sub-Saharan Africa: Longitudinal Trend Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study updates the initial COVID-19 pandemic surveillance in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from 2020 by providing 2 additional years of data for the region.

Objective

First, we aimed to measure whether there was an expansion or contraction in the pandemic in SSA when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an end to the public health emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic on May 5, 2023. Second, we used dynamic and genomic surveillance methods to describe the history of the pandemic in the region and situate the window of the WHO declaration within the broader history. Third, we aimed to provide historical context for the course of the pandemic in SSA.

Methods

In addition to updates of traditional surveillance data and dynamic panel estimates from the orig

SUBMITTER: Lundberg AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11541149 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature