ArticleNature medicine2021
Variation in SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks across sub-Saharan Africa.
Article in Nature medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Unveiling coagulation dysfunction in patients with COVID-19: a retrospective analysis.Journal of medicine and life · 2024Article
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- Advancing Vaccinology Capacity: Education and Efforts in Vaccine Development and Manufacturing across Africa.Vaccines · 2024Review
- Unraveling the effects of the Ebola experience on behavior choices during COVID-19 in Liberia: a mixed-methods study across successive outbreaks.BMC global and public health · 2024Article
- Symptom prevalence and secondary attack rate of SARS-CoV-2 in rural Kenyan households: A prospective cohort study.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2023Article
- Using mortuary and burial data to place COVID-19 in Lusaka, Zambia within a global context.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Impact of COVID-19 on Adolescent HIV Prevention and Treatment Services in the AHISA Network.AIDS and behavior · 2023Article
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- A global analysis of COVID-19 infection fatality rate and its associated factors during the Delta and Omicron variant periods: an ecological study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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- Epidemiology, Clinical Characteristics, and Mortality of Hospitalized Patients with Severe COVID-19 in Uganda, 2020-2021.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2022Article
- SARS CoV-2 Seroprevalence in Selected States of High and Low Disease Burden in Nigeria.JAMA network open · 2022Article
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A surprising feature of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic to date is the low burdens reported in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries relative to other global regions. Potential explanations (for example, warmer environments
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