COVID-19 and Africa: Surviving between a rock and a hard place
Por:
de Aranzabal, M, Fumado, V, Alegria, I, Rivera, M, Torre, N, Guibert, B, Munoz, M, Moraleda, C, Bassat, Q and Grupo de Cooperacion internacional
Publicada:
1 dic 2020
Ahead of Print:
3 ago 2020
Resumen:
With over 575,000 deaths and about 13.3 million cases globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a terrible impact globally during the 6 months since cases were first detected in China. Conscious of the many challenges presented in settings with abundance of resources and with robust health systems, where mortality has been significant and transmission difficult to control, there was a logical concern to see how the virus could impact African countries, and their fragile and weak health systems. Such an anticipated "tsunami", with potentially devastating consequences, seems however to not have yet arrived, and African countries, albeit witnessing an increasing degree of autochthonous transmission, seem to this day relatively unaffected by the pandemic. In this article we review the current situation of the pandemic in the African continent, trying to understand the determinants of its slow progress. (C) 2020 Asociacion Espanola de Pediatria. Published by Elsevier Espana, S.L.U.
Filiaciones:
de Aranzabal, M:
Ctr Salud Lakua Arriaga, Vitoria, Alava, Spain
Serv Urgencias IMQ Bilbao, Bilbao, Vizcaya, Spain
Fumado, V:
Univ Barcelona, Hosp Clin, ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain
Univ Barcelona, Hosp St Joan Deu, Unidad Enfermedades Infecciosas Pediat, Dept Pediat, Barcelona, Spain
Alegria, I:
Gambo Gen Rural Hosp, Oromiya, Ethiopia
Univ Int Catalunya, Hosp Gen Granollers, Dept Pediat, Barcelona, Spain
Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Hosp del Mar, Dept Pediat, Barcelona, Spain
Rivera, M:
Hosp Axarquia, UGC Pediat & Neonatol, Malaga, Spain
Univ Malaga, Dept Farmacol & Pediat, Malaga, Spain
Torre, N:
Hosp St Joan Deu, SEM Pediat & Neonatal, Barcelona, Spain
RDT, Fdn Vicente Ferrer, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India
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Hosp Gen Alicante, Urgencias Pediat & Transporte Neonatal, Alicante, Spain
Munoz, M:
Hosp Univ Virgen Macarena, Serv Pediat, Secc Infectol Pediat, Seville, Spain
Moraleda, C:
Hosp Univ 12 Octubre, Dept Pediat, Unidad Enfermedades Infecciosas Pediat, Madrid, Spain
Hosp 12 Octubre, Fdn Invest Biomed, Inst Invest Sanitaria 12 Octubre IMAS12, Madrid, Spain
Bassat, Q:
Univ Barcelona, Hosp Clin, ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain
Univ Barcelona, Hosp St Joan Deu, Unidad Enfermedades Infecciosas Pediat, Dept Pediat, Barcelona, Spain
Ctr Invest Saude Manhica CISM, Maputo, Mozambique
ICREA, Barcelona, Spain
Consorcio Invest Biomed Red Epidemiol & Salud Pub, Madrid, Spain
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