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: Received: 16 April 2020 / Approved: 17 April 2020 / Online: 17 April 2020 (17:27:44 CEST)
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: Received: 19 April 2020 / Approved: 19 April 2020 / Online: 19 April 2020 (15:09:10 CEST)
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: Received: 4 May 2020 / Approved: 4 May 2020 / Online: 4 May 2020 (18:51:36 CEST)
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: Received: 2 June 2020 / Approved: 3 June 2020 / Online: 3 June 2020 (05:49:12 CEST)
How to cite:
Kumar, S.; Renjith, P.; Priscilla, C.; Kumar Ganesan, S. A Normalized Mortality Rate Showed the Diverse Severity of COVID-19 in the World. Preprints2020, 2020040308. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0308.v2
Kumar, S.; Renjith, P.; Priscilla, C.; Kumar Ganesan, S. A Normalized Mortality Rate Showed the Diverse Severity of COVID-19 in the World. Preprints 2020, 2020040308. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0308.v2
Kumar, S.; Renjith, P.; Priscilla, C.; Kumar Ganesan, S. A Normalized Mortality Rate Showed the Diverse Severity of COVID-19 in the World. Preprints2020, 2020040308. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0308.v2
APA Style
Kumar, S., Renjith, P., Priscilla, C., & Kumar Ganesan, S. (2020). A Normalized Mortality Rate Showed the Diverse Severity of COVID-19 in the World. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0308.v2
Chicago/Turabian Style
Kumar, S., C. Priscilla and Selva Kumar Ganesan. 2020 "A Normalized Mortality Rate Showed the Diverse Severity of COVID-19 in the World" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0308.v2
Abstract
Covid-19 has given a halt to all the activities in the world. Europe was most affected followed by the United States of America. In this study we have assessed the severity of Covid-19 by analyzing the mortality rate in Covid-19 and other diseases. The Covid-19 data and “death rate” data caused by other diseases (cardiovascular diseases, cancer, non-communicable respiratory diseases, respiratory infectious diseases, diabetes mellitus, and kidney diseases) were downloaded from the world health organization (WHO) website. A normalized period based method was used to see the mortality rate of Covid-19 in comparison to other diseases. The deaths occurred by cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and respiratory diseases were more in number than the Covid-19 caused deaths in the 45 days period where most of the Covid-19 deaths had taken place. The mortality rate of Covid-19 was highest in France followed by Belgium and the lowest in Russia while the share of Covid-19 caused deaths in total deaths by all causes was the highest in Belgium followed by Spain and the lowest in Japan. The severity of Covid-19 in the USA was moderate. The severity of Covid-19 in Asian countries was found to be moderate to low. The severity of Covid-19 was diverse in the world. Europe showed the highest diversity in the mortality rate of Covid-19. Cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and non-communicable diseases were still more lethal and caused more deaths than Covid-19.
Medicine and Pharmacology, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Received:
19 April 2020
Commenter:
Santosh Kumar
Commenter's Conflict of Interests:
Author
Comment:
The data on Covid-19 was updated till 18th April. Three more authors were added as they contributed in revising the manuscript, data analysis and interpretation of data.
Commenter: Santosh Kumar
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author