Statistical Modeling of Deaths from COVID-19 Influenced by Social Isolation in Latin American Countries.

ABSTRACT: Social isolation is extremely important to minimize the effects of a pandemic. Latin American countries have similar socioeconomic characteristics and health system infrastructures. These countries face difficulties in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, and some of them have very high death rates. The government stringency index (GSI) of 12 Latin American countries was gathered from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker project. The GSI is calculated by considering nine social distancing and isolation measures. Population data from the United Nations Population Fund and number-of-deaths data were collected from the dashboard of the WHO. We performed an analysis of the data collected from March through December 2020 using a mixed linear model. Peru, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Colomb

SUBMITTER: da Silva RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9128698 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature