Rhoel Dinglasan of UF is studying differences in COVID-19 severity across countries. Dinglasan will coordinate with the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to explore features that differentiate the pandemic severity in the United States and sub-Saharan countries, which have experienced a lower severity compared to North America.
“The lower number of severe cases leading to death suggests that other factors may be influencing the local COVID-19 epidemic in each country,” said Dinglasan. “When we remove mitigation strategies such as testing, masking, physical distancing and vaccination, we are left looking at what endemic diseases people in other countries are experiencing as the influencing factors.”
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