The COVID-19 pandemic: diverse contexts; different epidemics—how and why?
Field | Value | Language |
dc.contributor.author | Van Damme, Wim | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Dahake, Ritwik | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Delamou, Alexandre | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Ingelbeen, Brecht | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Wouters, Edwin | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Vanham, Guido | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | van de Pas, Remco | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Dossou, Jean-Paul | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Ir, Por | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Abimbola, Seye | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Van der Borght, Stefaan | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Devadasan, Narayanan | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Bloom, Gerald | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Van Engelgem, Ian | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Ahmed, Mohamed Ali Ag | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Kiendrébéogo, Joël Arthur | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Verdonck, Kristien | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | De Brouwere, Vincent | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Bello, Kéfilath | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Kloos, Helmut | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Aaby, Peter | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Kalk, Andreas | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Al-Awlaqi, Sameh | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Prashanth, N S | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Muyembe-Tamfum, Jean Jacques | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Mbala, Placide | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Ahuka-Mundeke, Steve | en_AU |
dc.contributor.author | Assefa, Yibeltal | en_AU |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-14 | |
dc.date.available | 2020-08-14 | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | en_AU |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23090 | |
dc.description.abstract | It is very exceptional that a new disease becomes a true pandemic. Since its emergence in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19, has spread to nearly all countries of the world in only a few months. However, in different countries, the COVID-19 epidemic takes variable shapes and forms in how it affects communities. Until now, the insights gained on COVID-19 have been largely dominated by the COVID-19 epidemics and the lockdowns in China, Europe and the USA. But this variety of global trajectories is little described, analysed or understood. In only a few months, an enormous amount of scientific evidence on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 has been uncovered (knowns). But important knowledge gaps remain (unknowns). Learning from the variety of ways the COVID-19 epidemic is unfolding across the globe can potentially contribute to solving the COVID-19 puzzle. This paper tries to make sense of this variability—by exploring the important role that context plays in these different COVID-19 epidemics; by comparing COVID-19 epidemics with other respiratory diseases, including other coronaviruses that circulate continuously; and by highlighting the critical unknowns and uncertainties that remain. These unknowns and uncertainties require a deeper understanding of the variable trajectories of COVID-19. Unravelling them will be important for discerning potential future scenarios, such as the first wave in virgin territories still untouched by COVID-19 and for future waves elsewhere. | en_AU |
dc.language.iso | en | en_AU |
dc.subject | COVID-19 | en_AU |
dc.subject | Coronavirus | en_AU |
dc.title | The COVID-19 pandemic: diverse contexts; different epidemics—how and why? | en_AU |
dc.type | Preprint | en_AU |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.2139/ssrn.3622324 |
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