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How to cite:
Kumar, S.; Renjith, P.; Priscilla, C.; Kumar Ganesan, S. A Normalized Mortality Rate Showed the Diverse Severity of COVID-19 and Its Association With Other Chronic Diseases. Preprints2020, 2020040308. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0308.v4
Kumar, S.; Renjith, P.; Priscilla, C.; Kumar Ganesan, S. A Normalized Mortality Rate Showed the Diverse Severity of COVID-19 and Its Association With Other Chronic Diseases. Preprints 2020, 2020040308. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0308.v4
Kumar, S.; Renjith, P.; Priscilla, C.; Kumar Ganesan, S. A Normalized Mortality Rate Showed the Diverse Severity of COVID-19 and Its Association With Other Chronic Diseases. Preprints2020, 2020040308. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0308.v4
APA Style
Kumar, S., Renjith, P., Priscilla, C., & Kumar Ganesan, S. (2020). A Normalized Mortality Rate Showed the Diverse Severity of COVID-19 and Its Association With Other Chronic Diseases. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0308.v4
Chicago/Turabian Style
Kumar, S., C. Priscilla and Selva Kumar Ganesan. 2020 "A Normalized Mortality Rate Showed the Diverse Severity of COVID-19 and Its Association With Other Chronic Diseases" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0308.v4
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. It has taken more than 225,000 lives until now. In this study, we have assessed the severity of Covid-19 by analyzing the mortality rate of Covid-19 and other chronic diseases. The Covid-19 data and “death rate” data caused by other diseases were downloaded from the world health organization (WHO) website. A normalized method was used to see the mortality rate of Covid-19 in comparison to other diseases. The deaths caused by Covid-19 in April 2020 have overtaken the average number of deaths caused by Cancer, Cardiovascular diseases, and other diseases in Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, the UK, and Ireland. Covid-19 was found to be strongly correlated with non-communicable respiratory diseases and Cancer with correlation coefficients 0.73 and 0.70 respectively. The severity of Covid-19 in the USA was moderate. The severity of Covid-19 in Asian countries was found to be low. Europe showed the highest diversity in the mortality rate of Covid-19. On average, except for a few European countries, Cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and non-communicable respiratory diseases were still more lethal and caused more deaths than Covid-19.
Medicine and Pharmacology, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases
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Commenter: Santosh Kumar
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author