The determinants of COVID-19 morbidity and mortality across countries

• Main Authors: Chang, Dianna, Chang, Xin, He, Yu, Tan, Kelvin Jui Keng
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Social sciences::Geography; COVID-19; Morbidity
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171214
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We identify 21 predetermined country-level factors that explain marked variations in weekly COVID-19 morbidity and mortality across 91 countries between January and the end of 2020. Besides factors commonly associated with infectious diseases (e.g., population and tourism activities), we discover a...