撒哈拉以南非洲应对 COVID-19：挑战与机遇。
Sub-Saharan Africa Tackles COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities.
机构信息
Altru Hospital; Department of Internal Medicine, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND.
Heart Institute of the Caribbean, Kingston, Jamaica.
出版信息
Ethn Dis. 2020 Sep 24;30(4):693-694. doi: 10.18865/ed.30.4.693. eCollection 2020 Fall.
As of May 2020, the global COVID-19 pandemic had reached 187 countries with more than 3.7 million confirmed cases and 263,000 deaths. While sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has not been spared, the extent of disease is currently far less than in Europe or North America leading some to posit that climatic, genetic or other conditions will self-limit disease in this location. Nonetheless, infections in tropical Africa continue to rise at an alarming pace with the potential to soon exceed health resource availability and to exhaust a health care workforce that is already grossly under supported and ill-equipped. This perspective outlines the context of COVID-19 disease in Africa with a focus on the distinctive challenges faced by African nations and a potential best path forward.
截至 2020 年 5 月，全球 COVID-19 大流行已蔓延至 187 个国家，确诊病例超过 370 万例，死亡 26.3 万例。虽然撒哈拉以南非洲（SSA）未能幸免，但目前疾病的严重程度远低于欧洲或北美，这促使一些人提出假设，即气候、遗传或其他条件将限制该地区的疾病传播。尽管如此，非洲热带地区的感染仍在以惊人的速度上升，有可能很快超过卫生资源的可利用性，并使已经严重缺乏支持和装备不足的医疗保健劳动力不堪重负。本观点概述了非洲 COVID-19 疾病的背景，重点介绍了非洲国家面临的独特挑战以及可能的最佳前进道路。
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