Response to Char's comment: Comment on Li et al: COVID‐19 patients' clinical characteristics, discharge rate, and fatality rate of meta‐analysis

Li, Long quan; Huang, Tian; Wang, Yong qing; Wang, Zheng ping; Liang, Yuan; Huang, Tao; Zhang, Hui yun; Sun, Wei; Wang, Yu Ping

doi:10.1002/jmv.25924

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“…Meantime, the fact that more than half of the early year's students believed the possibility of infecting young people are less than the elderly, goes hand in hand with the Egyptian general public COVID-19 survey where great majority of participants believed that the disease complications are more severe in the elderly and people with chronic diseases as diabetes [15]. In China, many studies were published affirming these facts about the disease [26], [27].…”

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Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavior of Egyptian Medical Students Toward the Novel Coronavirus Disease-19: A Cross-Sectional Study

Fatah

Salem

Hakim

et al. 2020

Open Access Maced J Med Sci

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BACKGROUND: People in times of pandemics, crave after any medical field member (including medical students) to gain their knowledge and correct their behaviors. AIM: We aimed to assess medical students’ coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 related knowledge, attitude, and behavior (KAB). METHODS: The study is an exploratory cross-sectional study, conducted among medical students using an online survey. Medical students were classified according to their current academic year into either early year’s group (first 3 years in the medical school) or final year’s group (past 3 years in the medical school). RESULTS: A total of 2255 students completed the questionnaire. Regarding their COVID-19 related knowledge; 63.4% gave unsatisfactory responses (answered <75% of the questionnaire items correctly). Most of males (62.9%) and females (64.1%) gave unsatisfactory responses. CONCLUSION: Most of students had unsatisfactory responses of the current pandemic; however, the final year’s group had a significantly higher score in nearly all questionnaire (KAB) subsections than the early year’s group. The majority of both groups significantly believed that there are undeclared numbers in Egypt. Facebook and other platforms were the most common sources of information.

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confidence: 99%

Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavior of Egyptian Medical Students Toward the Novel Coronavirus Disease-19: A Cross-Sectional Study

Fatah

Salem

Hakim

et al. 2020

Open Access Maced J Med Sci

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“…In addition to fever and cough, dry cough is an important and common clinical manifestation. Coughing is reported in 60-80% of COVID-19 patients (16,34). Other respiratory symptoms include like dyspnea, sore throat, and rhinorrhea (7,16,35,36).…”

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Geriatric Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Problems, Considerations, Exigencies, and Beyond

Dhama

Patel

Kumar

et al. 2020

Front. Public Health

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic wreaked havoc worldwide, with more than 20 million confirmed cases and nearly 0. 75 million deaths as of 10th August 2020. Various factors determine the severity and symptoms of this infection. Older age and underlying diseases are the challenges being faced in controlling and treating COVID-19. In 2019, 703 million of the global population was older than 65 years of age. The estimated mortality due to COVID-19 in people older than 76 years of age is reportedly 18%. Frequent infections in older people, higher disease severity, and increased mortality are major challenges in the implementation of appropriate preventive measures and future strategies to protect against this disease in geriatric population. Poor health status, weak immune function, lowered organ function, increased probability of multiple underlying diseases, and poor attention to personal health can increase the susceptibility to various diseases in the geriatric population. Concerning inadequate immunity, the decrease expression of receptors and exaggerated pathophysiologic responses can be debilitating. However, future studies will reveal the hidden facets in these aspects in this COVID-19 catastrophe. In this article, we reviewed the main concerns of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in the geriatric population, including the risk of acquiring severe COVID-19 resulting in mortality, variation in clinical manifestations, and other pandemic-related concerns. We also discussed the need for increasing attention toward the elderly, taking appropriate prevention and control measures, and considering geriatric-related adjustments in vaccine design and development.

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“…Fatality rate of patients varies depending on whether we are looking at overall cases or only those of hospitalised patients. Mortality for all known cases vary from 2% and 3% [6] to 3.5% [2], while if looking at hospitalised patients, the number goes up to 7% [7], 4% to 11% [6], 8.2% [4] and even reaches 13.9% [8]. Demographic is a sizable variable in these rates, reaching up to 50%-75% for the elderly and those patients with comorbidities [6].…”

Section: Epidemiological and Clinical Observationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID-19 Modelling: the Effects of Social Distancing

Cano¹,

Morales²,

Bendtsen³

2020

Preprint

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The purpose of this article is to reach all those who find it difficult to become well informed about the repercussions of a lockdown strategy to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and to spark discussion and thought. Here we use simple stochastic simulations to evaluate different approaches taken to tackle the crisis, along with the efficiency they will hold and the number of casualties they may incur. It is clear that the less strict the social distancing the more time it will take for life to return to normal, and the more lives will be at risk. This is shown through simulations formed by an open sourced code, which allows evaluation of the outcomes from different intervention scenarios or conditions.

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Response to Char's comment: Comment on Li et al: COVID‐19 patients' clinical characteristics, discharge rate, and fatality rate of meta‐analysis

Cited by 41 publications

References 2 publications

Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavior of Egyptian Medical Students Toward the Novel Coronavirus Disease-19: A Cross-Sectional Study

Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavior of Egyptian Medical Students Toward the Novel Coronavirus Disease-19: A Cross-Sectional Study

Geriatric Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Problems, Considerations, Exigencies, and Beyond

COVID-19 Modelling: the Effects of Social Distancing

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