ArticleEpidemiology and infection2023
Response to COVID-19 in Lebanon: update, challenges and lessons learned.
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- Social determinants of self-medication with leftover antibiotics in Lebanese households: A cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2025Article
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- A Cross-Sectional Study Revealed a Low Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Asymptomatic University Students in Tripoli, North Lebanon.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Hospitals' Collaborations Strengthen Pandemic Preparedness: Lessons Learnt from COVID-19.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Lessons learnt from the first wave of COVID-19 in Damascus, Syria: a multicentre retrospective cohort study.BMJ open · 2023Article
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- Factors motivating lebanese youth to adopt COVID-19 good practices: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Side effects of COVID-19 vaccines in the middle eastern population.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Review
- Clinical Characteristics and Serum Cytokines Profiling in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in Lebanon.Journal of immunology research · 2023Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic remains a public health problem threatening national and global health security. The socio-economic impact of COVID-19 was more severe on developing countries including Lebanon, especially due to the fragile healthcare system, weak surveillance infrastructure and lack of comprehensive emergency preparedness and response plans. Lebanon has been struggling with plethora of challenges at the social, economic, financial, political and healthcare levels prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic in Lebanon revealed gaps and challenges across the spectrum of preparedness and response to emergencies. Despite these challenges, the Lebanese response was successful in delaying the steep surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalisations through imposing strict public health and social measures. The deployment of the national vaccination plan in Lebanon in February 2021 coincided with the reduction in the number of cases and hospitalisation rates. The aim of this manuscript is to advance the epidemiologic evolution of COVID-19 in Lebanon pre- and post-vaccination, the challenges affecting the response and recovery, and the lessons learned.
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