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Comment
. 2020 Nov;81(5):816-846.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.05.060. Epub 2020 May 28.

The potential impact of vulnerability and coping capacity on the pandemic control of COVID-19

Martin Cs Wong  1 , Jeremy Yc Teoh  2 , Junjie Huang  3 , Sunny H Wong  4
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Comment

The potential impact of vulnerability and coping capacity on the pandemic control of COVID-19

Martin Cs Wong et al. J Infect. 2020 Nov.

Abstract

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    The European commission has developed an index for risk management named INFORM

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    Two dimensions (vulnerability and lack of coping capacity) are relevant to COVID-19

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    We examined if these dimensions were associated with COVID-19 pandemic control

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    Higher vulnerability and poorer coping capacity were associated with poorer control

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    Modifying these two dimensions might potentially mitigate COVID-19 pandemic control

Keywords: COVID-19; Vulnerability; coping capacity; pandemic control.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Competing Interest None declared

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The distribution of COVID-19 vulnerability index and COVID-19 lack of coping capacity index
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