Do the current cases reported to the WHO provide a realistic incidence rate of countries infected with COVID-19?

Infect Ecol Epidemiol. 2020 Apr 10;10(1):1751917. doi: 10.1080/20008686.2020.1751917. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Ghobad Moradi¹, Amjad Mohamadi Bolbanabad¹, Bakhtiar Piroozi¹, Ehsan Mostafavi², Arshad Veysi³, Azad Shokri¹

Affiliations

¹ Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Research Institute for Health Development, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran.
³ Zoonoses Research Center, Research Institute for Health Development, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran.

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Keywords: COVID-19; emerging infectious disease; infectious disease reporting; international health regulations.

Publication types

Editorial