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ArticleConflict and health2021

Addressing the COVID-19 emergency during the ongoing political and economic crisis in Fragile Lebanon: a call to action.

Ludmila Lobkowicz, Julien Lahoud, Ibrahim Bou-Orm

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Article in Conflict and health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ludmila LobkowiczOrder of Malta Lebanon, Beirut, Lebanon. ludmilalobkowicz@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9915-0361
Julien LahoudOrder of Malta Lebanon, Beirut, Lebanon.
Ibrahim Bou-OrmOrder of Malta Lebanon, Beirut, Lebanon.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This Letter to the Editor aims to reflect on the current challenges to increase the coverage of COVID-19 vaccination in the fragile and conflict-affected setting of Lebanon, which is currently experiencing one of the biggest economic crises globally as well as a recent surge in COVID-19 cases. Addressing the supply- and demand-related factors affecting vaccination would increase COVID-19 vaccine coverage and prevent the complete collapse of an already overwhelmed Lebanese health care system.

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COVID-19Humanitarian crisisVaccination

Identifiers

PMID34479582
PMCPMC8414468

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