Understanding Economic and Health Factors Impacting the Spread of COVID-19 Disease

Aleksandr Farseev; Yu-Yi Chu-Farseeva; Yang Qi; Daron Benjamin Loo

The rapid spread of COVID-19 has drastically impacted economies around the world. On 11 March 2020 the disease was officially classified as a pandemic and, as reported on 24 March 2020, it has infected 440, 093, and causing 19, 748 deaths worldwide, with the highest new case intensities in the USA, Spain, Germany, France, Switzerland, South Korea, United Kingdom (UK), and Hubei Province in China. In response to such a volatile situation in the world, governments and the scientific communities have been actively studying the underlying principles and possible reasons for the disease spread and progression. For example, Bai et.al. [1] have first discovered that COVID-19 could have been possibly transmitted by asymptomatic carriers, while Wu et.al. [2] conducted a large-scale study based on 72, 314 confirmed cases listing important actionable lessons for other societies to apply. Furthermore, the Computer Science community has analyzed the disease spread from a statistical point of view. Specifically, in [3] , the authors witnessed a potential association between COVID-19 mortality rates and health-care re-2 . CC-BY-NC 4.0 International license It is made available under a author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.