The Wealth of Nations and the First Wave of COVID-19 Diffusion

Antonietti, Roberto; Falbo, Paolo; Fontini, Fulvio

doi:10.1007/s40797-021-00174-z

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“…The ongoing data reporting system maintained by the WHO seems to suggest that, at this stage, COVID-19 has become a "rich man's disease" in terms of its incidence or prevalence rates, which has been debated by the public, professionals, and academics alike (Antonietti et al, 2021;WHO, 2022c). A recent study conducted by T A B L E 3 Enter and stepwise multiple linear regression results to identify and compare predicting effects of independent and confounding variables on COVID-19 case fatality ratio.…”

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Nursing workforce plays a significant role in reducing COVID‐19 deaths worldwide: A cross‐sectional analysis of data from 178 countries

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Donnelly

2024

Nursing & Health Sciences

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Worldwide, the role of nursing workforce in reducing COVID‐19 case fatality ratio (CFR) is analyzed with scatter plots, Pearson's r and nonparametric, partial correlation and multiple linear regression models. The potential confounders, median age, health expenditure, physician density, and urbanization were incorporated for calculating the independent role of nursing workforce in protecting against COVID‐19 CFR. The study findings suggested that (1) the nursing workforce inversely and significantly correlates with COVID‐19 CFR; (2) this relationship remained independent of the confounding effects of each individual confounder or their combination; (3) Nursing workforce was the only variable identified as a significant contributor for reducing COVID‐19 CFR, when it was incorporated into stepwise regression model with health expenditure, median age, physician density, and urbanization for analyzing their individual predicting effects on COVID‐19 CFR. A strong message for the health authorities is that, although in shortage, nursing workforce showed their significant role in reducing COVID‐19 deaths worldwide. This study highlights that the role of nursing workforce should be incorporated into population health research.

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Nursing workforce plays a significant role in reducing COVID‐19 deaths worldwide: A cross‐sectional analysis of data from 178 countries

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Donnelly

2024

Nursing & Health Sciences

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“…The reason for this is unknown, although there are a few theories. Some possible significant covariates are the average yearly number of people arriving per capita [33,34], median age [34][35][36], or air pollution [35,[37][38][39][40][41], but none of these appear to provide a convincing explanation for the correlation between wealth and cases or deaths. More recently it is still the case that wealthier countries have more cases; see 3(d).…”

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Effect of vaccination rates on the prevalence and mortality of COVID-19

Westerhout

Khataee

Neufeld

2022

Preprint

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By looking at trends in global epidemic data, we evaluate the effectiveness of vaccines on the incidence and mortality from the delta variant of COVID-19. By comparing countries of varying vaccination levels, we find that more vaccinated countries have lower deaths while not having lower cases. This cannot be explained by testing rates or restrictions, but can be partly explained by the most susceptible countries also being the highest vaccinated countries. We also find that during the period when many countries have high vaccination rates, cases and deaths are both increasing in time. This seems to be caused by the waning of the protection vaccines grant against infection.

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“…A study analyzing a sample of 138 countries between March 24 and April 21, 2020 (Antonietti et al, 2021) points out that both the diffusion rate and the COVID-19 death rate are higher in countries with higher GDP/capita levels because world trade, human flows and international openness facilitate the spread of the virus; on the other hand, those countries that have better medical infrastructure have a decrease in mortality. Another research (Bretschger et al, 2020), applied on OECD countries, associates other factors with high numbers of cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality, such as pollution, obesity, and herd immunity.…”

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European Governments’ Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic during the First Wave: Resetting Governance Systems to Cope More Effectively with Future Shocks

Ţigănaşu

Simionov

Lupu

2022

Appl. Spatial Analysis

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The emergence of the current global crisis induced by the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic brings about an urgent need to rethink and reshape recovery strategies adapted to this specific challenging context. Neglecting this reconfiguration could lead to system lockdown, affecting all sectors, both on medium and long term. The coronavirus has penetrated various countries with different degrees of intensity, thus being spatially diversified; even within the same country, with the same lockdown measures, an enormous variety in cases is encountered. Subsequently, even if crises may manifest heterogeneously and the long-term impact of implementing recovery policies cannot be accurately known ex ante by governments, institutions could adapt themselves to changing circumstances and respond promptly and appropriately to emerging shocks only if their functioning framework had been well set up by the outbreak of the crisis. Considering these aspects, the main questions that this paper aims to answer are: How effective have governmental measures in European countries been in combating the COVID-19 crisis?; Could the solutions offered by the European states’ governments have an influence on diminishing the intensity of negative effects of a possible more serious return of this health crisis? What more could national authorities and international actors do to control the epidemiological evolution of SARS-CoV-2? Is a generic European Union policy helpful or should there be a case for local policy? Based on these issues, a comprehensive picture of the differences between the East and the West of Europe in terms of some medical, socio-economic, institutional and cultural factors will be outlined, in order to emphasize which of the two groups better-handled the COVID-19 situation in the first wave, covering the lockdown period (March 1, 2020 – June 1, 2020) and the relaxation period (June 1, 2020 – September 1, 2020); at the same time, some policy recommendations on how governments should more effectively manage future similar crises to generate a higher resilience of the systems will be provided.

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The Wealth of Nations and the First Wave of COVID-19 Diffusion

Cited by 13 publications

References 17 publications

Nursing workforce plays a significant role in reducing COVID‐19 deaths worldwide: A cross‐sectional analysis of data from 178 countries

Nursing workforce plays a significant role in reducing COVID‐19 deaths worldwide: A cross‐sectional analysis of data from 178 countries

Effect of vaccination rates on the prevalence and mortality of COVID-19

European Governments’ Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic during the First Wave: Resetting Governance Systems to Cope More Effectively with Future Shocks

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