Weathering the pandemic: How the Caribbean Basin can use viral and environmental patterns to predict, prepare, and respond to COVID-19.

Autor: de Ángel Solá DE; Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut., Wang L; Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri., Vázquez M; Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut., Méndez-Lázaro PA; Department of Environmental Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of medical virology [J Med Virol] 2020 Sep; Vol. 92 (9), pp. 1460-1468. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jun 02.
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.25864
Abstrakt: The 2020 coronavirus pandemic is developing at different paces throughout the world. Some areas, like the Caribbean Basin, have yet to see the virus strike at full force. When it does, there is reasonable evidence to suggest the consequent COVID-19 outbreaks will overwhelm healthcare systems and economies. This is particularly concerning in the Caribbean as pandemics can have disproportionately higher mortality impacts on lower and middle-income countries. Preliminary observations from our team and others suggest that temperature and climatological factors could influence the spread of this novel coronavirus, making spatiotemporal predictions of its infectiousness possible. This review studies geographic and time-based distribution of known respiratory viruses in the Caribbean Basin in an attempt to foresee how the pandemic will develop in this region. This review is meant to aid in planning short- and long-term interventions to manage outbreaks at the international, national, and subnational levels in the region.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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