Altitude and excess mortality during COVID-19 pandemic in Peru

Description

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

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1. 15699048
2. 10.1016/j.resp.2020.103512
3. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/654524
4. 18781519
5. Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology
6. 2-s2.0-85089388652
7. SCOPUS_ID:85089388652
8. S1569904820301701
9. 0000 0001 2196 144X

Tags

Altitude

Coronavirus disease 2019

Geography

Human

Letter

Pneumonia

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:PERUUPC/oai:repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe:10757/654524
Date	01 October 2020
Creators	Quevedo-Ramirez, Andres, Al-kassab-Córdova, Ali, Mendez-Guerra, Carolina, Cornejo-Venegas, Gonzalo, Alva-Chavez, Kenedy P.
Publisher	Elsevier B.V.
Source Sets	Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Format	application/pdf
Source	Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Repositorio Academico - UPC, Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology, 281
Rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Relation	https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32739459/