Ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 infection, hospitalisation, intensive care admission, and death: a global systematic review and meta-analysis of over 200 million study …

P Irizar, D Pan, D Kapadia, L Bécares, S Sze… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background COVID-19 has exacerbated existing ethnic inequalities in health. Little is known
about whether inequalities in severe disease and deaths, observed globally among …

Aggressive measures, rising inequalities, and mass formation during the COVID-19 crisis: An overview and proposed way forward

MC Schippers, JPA Ioannidis, AR Joffe - Frontiers in public health, 2022 - frontiersin.org
A series of aggressive restrictive measures were adopted around the world in 2020–2022 to
attempt to prevent SARS-CoV-2 from spreading. However, it has become increasingly clear …

[HTML][HTML] Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in older adults in Colombia: a retrospective, population-based study of the ESPERANZA cohort

L Arregocés-Castillo, J Fernández-Niño… - The Lancet Healthy …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Although clinical trials showed that vaccines have high efficacy and safety,
differences in study designs and populations do not allow for comparison between vaccines …

Maternal mortality linked to COVID-19 in Latin America: Results from a multi-country collaborative database of 447 deaths

F Maza-Arnedo, A Paternina-Caicedo… - The Lancet Regional …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background This study aimed to describe the clinical characteristics of maternal deaths
associated with COVID-19 registered in a collaborative Latin-American multi-country …

Evaluation of the Global Health Security Index as a predictor of COVID-19 excess mortality standardised for under-reporting and age structure

JR Ledesma, CR Isaac, SF Dowell, DL Blazes… - BMJ Global …, 2023 - gh.bmj.com
Background Previous studies have observed that countries with the strongest levels of
pandemic preparedness capacities experience the greatest levels of COVID-19 burden …

Mortality and associated risk factors in patients hospitalized due to COVID-19 in a Peruvian reference hospital

A Soto, DM Quiñones-Laveriano, J Azañero… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Objectives To determine the risk factors for in-hospital mortality in patients with COVID-19
from a Peruvian national hospital. Methods Retrospective cohort study of medical records of …

Identifying pre-existing conditions and multimorbidity patterns associated with in-hospital mortality in patients with COVID-19

M Bucholc, D Bradley, D Bennett, L Patterson… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
We investigated the association between a wide range of comorbidities and COVID-19 in-
hospital mortality and assessed the influence of multi morbidity on the risk of COVID-19 …

Unequal burden of COVID-19 in Hungary: a geographical and socioeconomic analysis of the second wave of the pandemic

B Oroszi, A Juhász, C Nagy, JK Horváth, M McKee… - BMJ global …, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction We describe COVID-19 morbidity, mortality, case fatality and excess death in a
country-wide study of municipalities in Hungary, exploring the association with …

Self-medication and the 'infodemic'during mandatory preventive isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic

A Gaviria-Mendoza, DA Mejía-Mazo… - … Advances in Drug …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Aim: Quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic altered the supply and demand of health
services. This, together with the 'infodemic'and generalized panic, could alter the patterns of …

[HTML][HTML] Qualitative assessment of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on migration, access to healthcare, and social wellbeing among Venezuelan migrants and …

M Stevenson, JR Guillén, KG Bevilacqua… - Journal of Migration and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Colombia hosts a large number of Venezuelan migrants and refugees who are
uniquely vulnerable and have been markedly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is …