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Altitude and excess mortality during COVID-19 pandemic in Peru

We have read with interest the short communication published by Segovia-Juarez et al., 2020 in Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology establishing that high altitude reduces the infection rate of COVID-19 but not the case fatality rate in the Peruvian setting. We support this hypothesis, however there could be an important number of under registered deaths on account of a low rate of diagnostic tests performed per inhabitant and mostly in symptomatic patients (Pasquariello and Stranges, 2020). / Revisión por pares

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:PERUUPC/oai:repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe:10757/654524
Date01 October 2020
CreatorsQuevedo-Ramirez, Andres, Al-kassab-Córdova, Ali, Mendez-Guerra, Carolina, Cornejo-Venegas, Gonzalo, Alva-Chavez, Kenedy P.
PublisherElsevier B.V.
Source SetsUniversidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
Formatapplication/pdf
SourceUniversidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Repositorio Academico - UPC, Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology, 281
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Relationhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32739459/

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