Open AccessEvolution of the pandemic: Analysis of demographic characteristics of COVID-19-infected patients during its two waves in Gwalior district of central India
Author(s) -
Richa Changulani,
Durgesh Shukla,
SumitSingh Bhadoria,
Manoj Bansal
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1189_21
Subject(s) - medicine , case fatality rate , pandemic , demography , covid-19 , rural area , mortality rate , disease , epidemiology , surgery , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology , sociology
Studies of pandemics in past centuries have suggested that the second wave was always more lethal and devastating as compared to the first wave. Regarding coronavirus disease (COVID) pandemic also, various speculations were made that during the second wave virus changes its nature either for age structure, gender or rural-urban differential. Present study was aimed to compare the demographic and mortality profile of COVID-19 patients during the two waves.