Open AccessSocietal and economic factors associated with COVID-19 indicate that developing countries could suffer the most
Author(s) -
Alessandro Selvitella,
Kathleen Lois Foster
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
technium social sciences journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2668-7798
DOI - 10.47577/tssj.v10i1.1357
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , globe , developing country , development economics , coronavirus , epidemiology , healthcare system , developed country , health care , economic growth , geography , economics , environmental health , psychology , medicine , virology , population , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , pathology , outbreak , neuroscience
Most of the research related to the COVID-19 pandemic deals with the biological and epidemiological factors which have driven the spread of the coronavirus around the globe. In this paper, we analyse how societal and economic variates relate to the number of cases and deaths across countries, via machine learning methods. Our findings recommend focusing our attention on developing countries where the healthcare system might suffer the most.