Relationships between COVID-19 and disaster risk in Costa Rican municipalities

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching impacts on every aspect of human life since the first confirmed case in December 2019. Costa Rica reported its first case of COVID-19 in March 2020, coinciding with a notable correlation between the occurrence of disaster events at the municipal scale over the past five decades. In Costa Rica, over 90% of disasters are hydrometeorological in nature, while geological disasters have caused significant economic and human losses throughout the country's history. To analyze the relationship between COVID-19 cases and disaster events in Costa Rica, two Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) were used to statistically evaluate the influence of socio-environmental parameters such as population density, social development index, road density, and non-forested ar

SUBMITTER: Quesada-Roman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9922674 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature