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Ayomide Owoyemi1, Tolulope Balogun2, Joy Okoro3
1Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.
Abstract:
Objectives: The objective of this study was to examine the association between several country-level systemic indices and the deaths from COVID-19 across African countries. Method: Regression analyses were conducted to test the association between selected indices and deaths from COVID-19 across African countries. All tests were run at the α = 0.05 level of significance. Result: We found a statistically significant correlation between total COVID-19 deaths per million and Stringency Index (p-value <0.001) and Human Development Index (p-value <0.001). Multiple regression analysis showed that Stringency Index was the only variable that remained significant when other factors are controlled for in the model. Conclusion: Countries in Africa with poorer governance, inadequate pandemic preparedness and lower levels of development have unexpectedly fared better with respect to COVID-19 deaths mainly because of having a younger population than the countries with better indices.
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