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Europe’s War against COVID-19: A Map of Countries’ Disease Vulnerability Using Mortality Indicators
Dan Gabriel DumitrescuLucian BelascuAnca A. SimionescuAlexandra Horobețsubject
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis030231 tropical medicinePopulationPneumonia ViralVulnerabilityeastern countrieslcsh:MedicineTotal populationDiseasecomorbiditiesArticle03 medical and health sciencesBetacoronavirus0302 clinical medicinePandemicHumans030212 general & internal medicineeducationwestern countriesPandemicsHealth policyAgedDisease vulnerabilityeducation.field_of_studySARS-CoV-2lcsh:RPublic Health Environmental and Occupational HealthCOVID-19mortalityCoronavirusEuropeGeographyCoronavirus InfectionsDemographydescription
Specific and older age-associated comorbidities increase mortality risk in severe forms of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). We matched COVID-19 comorbidities with causes of death in 28 EU countries for the total population and for the population above 65 years and applied a machine-learning-based tree clustering algorithm on shares of death for COVID-19 comorbidities and for influenza and on their growth rates between 2011 and 2016. We distributed EU countries in clusters and drew a map of the EU populations&rsquo
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-09-01 | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |