Abstract:To the Editor:The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has globally disrupted contemporary life 1 . It has caused 73,996,237 confirmed cases and 1,663,474 deaths since December 19, 2020, with a global mortality rate of 2.25% 2 . While efforts to understand, cure, and prevent the disease are ongoing, the mortality rate and disease burden imposed by SARS-CoV-2, as well as the appropriateness of pandemic containment measures, are also being discussed [3][4][5] . To this end, geogr… Show more
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