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Review
. 2021 Apr 14:9:608810.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.608810. eCollection 2021.

India's COVID-19 Burdens, 2020

Ashish Joshi  1 , Apeksha H Mewani  2 , Srishti Arora  3 , Ashoo Grover  4
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India's COVID-19 Burdens, 2020

Ashish Joshi et al. Front Public Health. .

Abstract

The purpose of this article is two pronged; first, to identify and report public health implications of the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and second, to report challenges uniquely faced by the citizens of India from a population health perspective. We have done both while closely examining epidemiological data that is accessible via SMAART's RAPID Tracker. This policy informatics platform is a live database aimed to track the geospatial spread of the COVID-19 outbreak and policy actions globally and is administered collaboratively by CUNY's Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and a global, non-profit public health incubator. Infectivity, incidence, and recovery rates were computed and graphical representations of epidemiological datasets were studied. We have discussed a plausible conceptual framework based on the principles of population health informatics for countries with similar characteristics to build a stronger public and community health foundation in order to safeguard populations during a health emergency in the future.

Keywords: COVID-19; India; SMAART RAPID tracker; public health; public policy.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Source: http://www.smaartrapidtracker.org, accessed on December 29, 2020. Total number of cumulative cases of COVID-19 in the world, Russia, United States of America, Brazil, and India (January 21, 2020 to December 29, 2020).
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Figure 2
Source: http://www.smaartrapidtracker.org, accessed on July 27, 2020. The New cases (7 Day average change) of COVID-19 in India (June15, 2020, to July 15th, 2020).
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Figure 3
Source: http://www.smaartrapidtracker.org, accessed on December 29, 2020. Status of COVID-19-Total number of new cases in India, and in the states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu (March 1, 2020 to December 29, 2020).
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Figure 4
Source: http://www.smaartrapidtracker.org, accessed on December 29, 2020. Status of COVID-19 Total number of new fatality in India, and in the states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu (March 1, 2020 to December 29, 2020).
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Figure 5
Source: http://www.smaartrapidtracker.org, accessed on December 29, 2020. Total number of new cases of COVID-19 in the world, Vietnam, and India (January 21, 2020 to December 29, 2020).
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Figure 6
Source: http://www.smaartrapidtracker.org, accessed on December 29, 2020. Total number of cumulative cases of COVID-19 in the world, Vietnam, Japan, Philippines, Turkey Egypt, and Congo (January 21, 2020 to December 29, 2020).
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Figure 7
Source: http://www.smaartrapidtracker.org, accessed on December 29, 2020. Total number of cumulative cases of COVID-19 in the world, China, India, Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan (January 21, 2020 to December 29, 2020).
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Figure 8
Population Health Informatics Surveillance System.
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Figure 9
Framework to support decision making for future pandemic preparedness.
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