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2020-07-30Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.25646/7050
The COVID-19 pandemic: diverse contexts; different epidemics—how and why?
dc.contributor.authorVan Damme, Wim
dc.contributor.authorDahake, Ritwik
dc.contributor.authorDelamou, Alexandre
dc.contributor.authorIngelbeen, Brecht
dc.contributor.authorWouters, Edwin
dc.contributor.authorVanham, Guido
dc.contributor.authorvan de Pas, Remco
dc.contributor.authorDossou, Jean-Paul
dc.contributor.authorIr, Por
dc.contributor.authorAbimbola, Seye
dc.contributor.authorVan der Borght, Stefaan
dc.contributor.authorNarayanan, Devadasan
dc.contributor.authorBloom, Gerald
dc.contributor.authorVan Engelgem, Ian
dc.contributor.authorAhmed, Mohamed Ali Ag
dc.contributor.authorKiendrébéogo, Joël Arthur
dc.contributor.authorVerdonck, Kristien
dc.contributor.authorDe Brouwere, Vincent
dc.contributor.authorBello, Kéfilath
dc.contributor.authorKloos, Helmut
dc.contributor.authorAaby, Peter
dc.contributor.authorKalk, Andreas
dc.contributor.authorAl-Awlaqi, Sameh
dc.contributor.authorPrashanth, NS
dc.contributor.authorMuyembe-Tamfum, Jean-Jacques
dc.contributor.authorMbala, Placide
dc.contributor.authorAhuka-Mundeke, Steve
dc.contributor.authorAssefa, Yibeltal
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-30T12:33:29Z
dc.date.available2020-07-30T12:33:29Z
dc.date.issued2020-07-30none
dc.identifier.other10.1136/ bmjgh-2020-003098
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.rki.de/176904/6910
dc.description.abstractIt is very exceptional that a new disease becomes a true pandemic. Since its emergence in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19, has spread to nearly all countries of the world in only a few months. However, in different countries, the COVID-19 epidemic takes variable shapes and forms in how it affects communities. Until now, the insights gained on COVID-19 have been largely dominated by the COVID-19 epidemics and the lockdowns in China, Europe and the USA. But this variety of global trajectories is little described, analysed or understood. In only a few months, an enormous amount of scientific evidence on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 has been uncovered (knowns). But important knowledge gaps remain (unknowns). Learning from the variety of ways the COVID-19 epidemic is unfolding across the globe can potentially contribute to solving the COVID-19 puzzle. This paper tries to make sense of this variability—by exploring the important role that context plays in these different COVID-19 epidemics; by comparing COVID-19 epidemics with other respiratory diseases, including other coronaviruses that circulate continuously; and by highlighting the critical unknowns and uncertainties that remain. These unknowns and uncertainties require a deeper understanding of the variable trajectories of COVID-19. Unravelling them will be important for discerning potential future scenarios, such as the first wave in virgin territories still untouched by COVID-19 and for future waves elsewhere.eng
dc.language.isoengnone
dc.publisherRobert Koch-Institut
dc.rights(CC BY-NC 3.0 DE) Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell 3.0 Deutschlandger
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/de/
dc.subjectpublic healtheng
dc.subject.ddc610 Medizin und Gesundheitnone
dc.titleThe COVID-19 pandemic: diverse contexts; different epidemics—how and why?none
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:kobv:0257-176904/6910-0
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25646/7050
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionnone
local.edoc.container-titleBMJ Global Healthnone
local.edoc.type-nameZeitschriftenartikel
local.edoc.container-typeperiodical
local.edoc.container-type-nameZeitschrift
local.edoc.container-urlhttps://gh.bmj.com/content/5/7/e003098none
local.edoc.container-publisher-nameBMJnone
local.edoc.container-volume5none
local.edoc.container-firstpagee003098none

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