Covid-19 mortality and local burden of infectious diseases: A worldwide country-by-country analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Global differences in the Covid-19 death toll between various countries are still a matter of debate. We evaluated the potential influence of general burden of infectious diseases prior to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic on the number of Covid-19 deaths during the pandemic.

Methods

We used publicly available data from Worldometer and Our World in Data. In a complete case analysis, 178 countries and territories, where all parameters were available, entered the analysis, representing 99.02% of the global population. Relationships between various parameters of the local burden of infectious diseases as well as childhood mortality, median age, and vaccination as independent variables, on Covid-19 deaths as the dependent variable, were evaluated.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Krause R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9598049 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature