COVID-19 in Africa: Underreporting, demographic effect, chaotic dynamics, and mitigation strategy impact.

• Main Authors: Nathan Thenon (Author), Marisa Peyre (Author), Mireille Huc (Author), Abdoulaye Touré (Author), François Roger (Author), Sylvain Mangiarotti (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The epidemic of COVID-19 has shown different developments in Africa compared to the other continents. Three different approaches were used in this study to analyze this situation. In the first part, basic statistics were performed to estimate the contribution of the elderly people to the total numbe...