Publication: Prerequisite for COVID-19 Prediction: A Review on Factors Affecting the Infection Rate
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Date
2022
Authors
Tang S.G.H.
Hadi M.H.H.
Arsad S.R.
Ker P.J.
Ramanathan S.
Afandi N.A.M.
Afzal M.M.
Yaw M.W.
Krishnan P.S.
Chen C.P.
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MDPI
Abstract
Since the year 2020, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has emerged as the dominant topic of discussion in the public and research domains. Intensive research has been carried out on several aspects of COVID-19, including vaccines, its transmission mechanism, detection of COVID-19 infection, and its infection rate and factors. The awareness of the public related to the COVID-19 infection factors enables the public to adhere to the standard operating procedures, while a full elucidation on the correlation of different factors to the infection rate facilitates effective measures to minimize the risk of COVID-19 infection by policy makers and enforcers. Hence, this paper aims to provide a comprehensive and analytical review of different factors affecting the COVID-19 infection rate. Furthermore, this review analyses factors which directly and indirectly affect the COVID-19 infection risk, such as physical distance, ventilation, face masks, meteorological factor, socioeconomic factor, vaccination, host factor, SARS-CoV-2 variants, and the availability of COVID-19 testing. Critical analysis was performed for the different factors by providing quantitative and qualitative studies. Lastly, the challenges of correlating each infection risk factor to the predicted risk of COVID-19 infection are discussed, and recommendations for further research works and interventions are outlined. � 2022 by the authors.
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COVID-19; disease incidence; epidemic; health policy; infectious disease; policy implementation; socioeconomic status; vaccination; air conditioning; coronavirus disease 2019; COVID-19 testing; host; human; infection rate; infection risk; meteorological phenomena; nonhuman; prediction; Review; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; social distancing; socioeconomics; vaccination; diagnosis; epidemiology; mask; COVID-19; COVID-19 Testing; Humans; Masks; SARS-CoV-2