The association between early country-level COVID-19 testing capacity and later COVID-19 mortality outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has overrun hospital systems while exacerbating economic hardship and food insecurity on a global scale. In an effort to understand how early action to find and control the virus is associated with cumulative outcomes, we explored how country-level testing capacity affects later COVID-19 mortality.

Methods

We used the Our World in Data database to explore testing and mortality records in 27 countries from December 31, 2019, to September 30, 2020; we applied Cox proportional hazards regression to determine the relationship between early COVID-19 testing capacity (cumulative tests per case) and later COVID-19 mortality (time to specified mortality thresholds), adjusting for country-level confounders, including median age, GDP, hospital bed capa

SUBMITTER: Kannoth S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8652724 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature