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. 2021 Sep;50(9):1926-1929.
doi: 10.18502/ijph.v50i9.7081.

Why Is COVID-19 More Concentrated in Countries with High Economic Status?

Mohsen Bayati  1
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Why Is COVID-19 More Concentrated in Countries with High Economic Status?

Mohsen Bayati. Iran J Public Health. 2021 Sep.
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests.

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Regression line of COVID-19 prevalence and death rates (per 1 million population) on GDP per capita (current USD)* In the regression model, which is analyzed by the author, data of COVID-19 mortality and morbidity, and GDP per capita were collected from Worldometer (1) and World Bank data bases, respectively. Moreover, axes are in logarithmic scale
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