Petrov Andrey N, Welford Mark, Golosov Nikolay, DeGroote John, Degai Tatiana, Savelyev Alexander
ARCTICenter, University of Northern Iowa , Cedar Falls, IA, USA.
Department of Geography, University of Northern Iowa , Cedar Falls, IA, USA.
Int J Circumpolar Health. 2020 Dec;79(1):1835251. doi: 10.1080/22423982.2020.1835251.
Since February 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic has been unfolding in the Arctic, placing many communities at risk due to remoteness, limited healthcare options, underlying health issues and other compounding factors. Preliminary analysis of available COVID-19 data in the Arctic at the regional (subnational) level suggests that COVID-19 infections and mortality were highly variable, but generally remained below respective national levels. Based on the trends and magnitude of the pandemic through July, we classify Arctic regions into four groups: Iceland, Faroe Islands, Northern Norway, and Northern Finland with elevated early incidence rates, but where strict quarantines and other measures promptly curtailed the pandemic; Northern Sweden and Alaska, where the initial wave of infections persisted amid weak (Sweden) or variable (Alaska) quarantine measures; Northern Russia characterised by the late start and subsequent steep growth of COVID-19 cases and fatalities and multiple outbreaks; and Northern Canada and Greenland with no significant proliferation of the pandemic. Despite limitations in available data, further efforts to track and analyse the pandemic at the pan-Arctic, regional and local scales are crucial. This includes understanding of the COVID-19 patterns, mortality and morbidity, the relationships with public-health conditions, socioeconomic characteristics, policies, and experiences of the Indigenous Peoples. Data used in this paper are available at https://arctic.uni.edu/arctic-covid-19.
自2020年2月以来，北极地区一直在经历新冠疫情。由于地处偏远、医疗选择有限、潜在健康问题以及其他复杂因素，许多社区面临风险。对北极地区（次国家级）层面现有新冠疫情数据的初步分析表明，新冠感染和死亡率差异很大，但总体仍低于各自国家的水平。根据截至7月的疫情趋势和规模，我们将北极地区分为四类：冰岛、法罗群岛、挪威北部和芬兰北部，早期发病率较高，但严格的隔离措施和其他举措迅速遏制了疫情；瑞典北部和阿拉斯加，在较弱（瑞典）或多变（阿拉斯加）的隔离措施下，首轮感染浪潮持续；俄罗斯北部的特点是新冠病例和死亡病例起步晚且随后急剧增加，并有多次疫情爆发；加拿大北部和格陵兰岛，疫情没有显著扩散。尽管现有数据存在局限性，但在泛北极、区域和地方层面进一步跟踪和分析疫情的努力至关重要。这包括了解新冠疫情模式、死亡率和发病率，以及与公共卫生状况、社会经济特征、政策和原住民经历之间的关系。本文使用的数据可在https://arctic.uni.edu/arctic-covid-19获取。
