A Clinical-Statistical Study on COVID-19 Cases in Iraq: A Case Study

Abstract

Background: COVID-19 is a disease that started in Wuhan/China in late 2019 and continued through 2020 worldwide.Scientists worldwide continue to research to find vaccines, treatments, and medication for this disease. Studies also conenue to find the pathogenicity and epidemiology mechanisms.Materials and Methods:In this work, we analyzed cases obtained from Alshifaa center in Baghdad/Iraq for 23/2/2020-31/5/2020 with total instances of 797, positive cases of 393, and death cases of 30.Results: Results showed that the highest infection cases were among people aged between 41-45. Also, it was found that males' number of cases was more than females. In contrast, death cases were significantly higher in males than females.It was notable that the number of cases increased over time; here, it grew from April to May from 92 to 238, respectively.Conclusion: It is worth mentioning that by the beginning of Jun, the number of cases has dramatically increased, and now more than 2K points are recorded daily.Also, death cases had the same behavior.

A clinical-statistical study on COVID-19 infection and death status at the Alshifaa Healthcare Center/ Baghdad

“…This could indicate that women aging 71-80 years have a higher probability to die than males of the same age. In a previous analysis of data obtained from the Alshifaa center; 9 we also concluded that males had a higher tendency to die than females. Our finding was not away from other studies, 6 and the explanation of this occurrence was attributed to the sex hormones and genetic differences.…”

“…Some central laboratories started using the qPCR kits that could detect the positive cases of new strains. [7][8][9] Other than the gene sequencing, Iraq lacks techniques of neutralization techniques, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, and CRISPR-associated protein 9 (CRISPR/Cas 9) to detect the virus strains. 25 Instead, Iraq relies on the qPCR as the only technique to detect the virus.…”

“…Yet, the pathogenesis of these deadly epidemics is unclear. 2,[7][8][9] In our previous work, data were analyzed from the Alshifaa center in Baghdad from April to May 2020. 9 In this work, the data of COVID-19 cases reported from the Alshifaa center in Baghdad for the period 1/Sep-31/Dec 2020 are reported.…”

“…2,[7][8][9] In our previous work, data were analyzed from the Alshifaa center in Baghdad from April to May 2020. 9 In this work, the data of COVID-19 cases reported from the Alshifaa center in Baghdad for the period 1/Sep-31/Dec 2020 are reported. We studied COVID-19 cases in one of Iraq's COVID-19 centers to provide a brief summary of the epidemiology and history of SARS-CoV-2.…”

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“…However, Iraq is still detecting the virus without gene sequencing. Some central laboratories started using qPCR kits to detect the new strain with other positive cases [30][31][32] . The need to sequence SARS-CoV-2 virus isolates is crucial to identify new variants like the U.K. variant.…”