Author: Nuwagira, Edwin; Muzoora, Conrad
Title: Is Sub-Saharan Africa prepared for COVID-19? Document date: 2020_4_10
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Snippet: Worse still, there is inadequate manpower especially of critical care doctors and consultant anesthetists to run the few ICUs in SSA. There is also a high burden of infectious diseases with emerging viral illnesses such as Ebola hemorrhagic fever and Lassa hemorrhagic fever in addition to the "priority infections" HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis, and for all disease models, mortality has always been the highest in SSA compared to HICs. These infec.....
Document: Worse still, there is inadequate manpower especially of critical care doctors and consultant anesthetists to run the few ICUs in SSA. There is also a high burden of infectious diseases with emerging viral illnesses such as Ebola hemorrhagic fever and Lassa hemorrhagic fever in addition to the "priority infections" HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis, and for all disease models, mortality has always been the highest in SSA compared to HICs. These infections present with fever, a screening symptom and sign for the COVID-19 making it hard to determine which patients to screen. In the West African Ebola outbreak, fever was used as a screening test, but 10% of the confirmed cases did not have fever, and a number of them are with malaria co-infection [10] .
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