Report from Bolsonaro's Brazil: the consequences of ignoring science

AJ Idrovo, EF Manrique-Hernández… - … Journal of Health …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Currently, the fast spread of COVID-19 is the cause of a sanitary emergency in Brazil. This
situation is largely due to President Bolsonaro's denial and the uncoordinated actions …

[HTML][HTML] Using the Newcomb–Benford law to study the association between a country's COVID-19 reporting accuracy and its development

VS Balashov, Y Yan, X Zhu - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred controversies related to whether countries manipulate
reported data for political gains. We study the association between accuracy of reported …

<? covid19?> Data Quality of Chinese Surveillance of COVID-19: Objective Analysis Based on WHO's Situation Reports

AJ Idrovo… - Asia Pacific Journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Was there quality in the Chinese epidemiological surveillance system during the COVID-19
pandemic? Using data of World Health Organization's situation reports (until situation report …

[HTML][HTML] On the authenticity of COVID-19 case figures

AP Kennedy, SCP Yam - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
In this article, we study the applicability of Benford's law and Zipf's law to national COVID-19
case figures with the aim of establishing guidelines upon which methods of fraud detection …

[HTML][HTML] Desempeño del sistema de vigilancia colombiano durante la pandemia de COVID-19: evaluación rápida de los primeros 50 días

EF Manrique-Hernández, J Moreno-Montoya… - Biomédica, 2020 - scielo.org.co
Introducción. La pandemia de COVID es un desafío para la vigilancia en salud pública y
una oportunidad para evaluar sus fortalezas y debilidades en aras de mejorar la respuesta …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluación comparativa de la vigilancia en salud pública de COVID-19 en Colombia: primer semestre

A Hurtado-Ortiz, J Moreno-Montoya… - Biomédica, 2020 - scielo.org.co
Introducción. La vigilancia en salud pública y las decisiones sanitarias recomendadas son
fundamentales para el manejo adecuado de la pandemia de SARS-CoV-2. Objetivo. Hacer …

[HTML][HTML] Crónica de una pandemia anunciada: caso Santander (Parte 1)

AJ Idrovo, EF Manrique-Hernández… - Revista de la …, 2020 - scielo.org.co
Introducción: la pandemia de COVID-19 llegó al departamento de Santander el 17 de marzo
de 2020; los primeros casos fueron importados y relacionados, manteniendo una baja …

[HTML][HTML] Socioepidemiological macro-determinants associated with the cumulative incidence of bacterial meningitis: A focus on the African Meningitis Belt

GD Pinilla-Monsalve, N Llanos-Leyton… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Bacterial meningitis (BM) is a public health challenge as it is associated with
high lethality and neurological sequelae. Worldwide, most cases are registered in the …

[HTML][HTML] Applying Benford's law to monitor death registration data: A management tool for the COVID-19 pandemic

FG Morillas-Jurado, M Caballer-Tarazona… - Mathematics, 2021 - mdpi.com
In Spain, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the various regions of the country
differently. The availability of reliable and up-to-date information has proved to be …

[PDF][PDF] Global performance of epidemiologic surveillance of Zika virus: rapid assessment of an ongoing epidemic

EF Manrique-Hernández, JA Fernández-Niño… - Public …, 2017 - researchgate.net
The current Zika virus epidemic began in French Polynesia in 2014 and spread to Brazil,
followed by Colombia and several countries and territories in Latin America and the …