Although it is said that Covid 19 has hit hardest with demographic factors (population, health, age) or economic conditions, cultural variance across countries is just as crucial in understanding how susceptible a society is to the COVID-19 outbreak, kindly provide your thoughts .
Awareness
Preventive measures
Culture of compliance
Adequacy in terms of medical facilities
Economic power in terms of applying strict measures
Social culture that supports the elderly
Preventive action
Compliance culture
Adequacy of medical facilities and qualifications of medical personnel
Economic strength in terms of tough containment measures
The main reasons include weather conditions, demographic composition, and population density.
To me, covid-19 keeps spreading globally through holidaymakers, imported cases, lack of preparedness plan, relaxed health responses, and non-observance of the covid-19 protocol by infected persons or contact persons.
The major reasons are -
1) Adherence of people to safety & hygiene protocols
2) Weather conditions
3) how much financial & health support people are getting from their government
4) population density
5) lack of proper education about covid-19 may also contribute to its severe outbreak
It depends on the environmental conditions as well as the culture of the community
The patient infects all societies on Earth, regardless of the level of health awareness, but the intensity of infections in some societies results from the weak resistance of human bodies there to viruses. In poor societies because of the environment, people have gained greater immunity compared to rich countries, where levels of hygiene are very high, a reason even the high elimination of neighborhoods useful to restrain a person
The variation in the characteristics of the environment and the health culture related to prevention and treatment are factors that control the number of injuries in every part of the world
I think it depends on the seasonal changes and weather. But most importantly is that people’s awareness plays a huge part in the intensity of each wave of covid
Shameemul Haque
Dear Professor,
Thank you for the wonderful topic of a discussion.
With 17 answers, this discussion seems settled here. I just want to add that a virus has created this pandemic. The life of that virus depends on many factors. The presence of these factors are not ubiquitous in all the countries of the world. So the life of the virus has separate characteristics for different countries. And, probably that is the reason that we see COVID-19 hitting different countries with different intensities.
Best regards,
Anamitra.
It may depend on the appropriate environment for virus activity, the type of strain, population density, the health system used in that country, and other things.
Different climates and diets may be the reasons for this observation.
Same disease (COVID-19) but different seeds (SARS-CoV-2 variants), hosts (people affected), and soil (environment)
Different prevalence and deaths of SARS-CoV-2 in different countries of the world are dependent on the number of tests being done, the quality of test-kits being used for diagnosis, percentage of people following social distancing, hand hygiene, and using face-masks, age-dynamics of the population, the people's base-line immunity to infections, duration and severity of winter months (encouraging indoor transmission), robust-ness of the health-care systems, and resources and funds available and type of housing where the people are living.
Maybe you can found interesting this paper https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348635310_COVID-19_and_Italian_Healthcare_Workers_From_the_Initial_Sacrifice_to_the_mRNA_Vaccine_Pandemic_Chrono-History_Epidemiological_Data_Ethical_Dilemmas_and_Future_Challenges/stats
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Arvind Singh As almost always, excellent reduction of factors.
I would add: capacities of the health care system.
* The householdsize distribution
* urbal vs. rural structure
* cultural norms like the affinity to physical contacts among strangers/non-familiy contacts
The severity of COVID-19 has been widely reported to be influenced by age, sex and underlying comorbidities, and there is some evidence that other factors, such as ethnicity, are also independent risk factors https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/estimating-mortality-from-covid-19#:~:text=The%20severity%20of%20COVID%2D,also%20independent%20risk%20factors.
Also check https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340629015_The_COVID-19_Pandemic_Why_are_Some_Countries_more_Successful_than_others
