1. Altitude and excess mortality during COVID-19 pandemic in Peru
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Gonzalo Cornejo-Venegas, Kenedy P. Alva-Chavez, Ali Al-kassab-Córdova, Carolina Mendez-Guerra, and Andres Quevedo-Ramirez
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Excess mortality ,Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ,2019-20 coronavirus outbreak ,Letter ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,biology ,Coronavirus disease 2019 ,Geography ,Physiology ,Altitude ,General Neuroscience ,Pneumonia ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Virology ,Article ,Pandemic ,medicine ,Betacoronavirus ,Coronavirus Infections ,Human - Abstract
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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- 2020
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