Two-year follow-up of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.

ABSTRACT:

Background

After the initial outbreak in China (December 2019), the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11^th, 2020. This paper aims to describe the first 2 years of the pandemic in Mexico.

Design and methods

This is a population-based longitudinal study. We analyzed data from the national COVID-19 registry to describe the evolution of the pandemic in terms of the number of confirmed cases, hospitalizations, deaths and reported symptoms in relation to health policies and circulating variants. We also carried out logistic regression to investigate the major risk factors for disease severity.

Results

From March 2020 to March 2022, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Mexico underwent four epidemic waves. Out of 5,702,

SUBMITTER: Loza A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9880891 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature