Concern for severe COVID-19 disease during the initial two years of pandemic in a rural South African community: A population-based study
Understanding presumptive COVID-19 disease severity may help disentangle various underlying mechanisms behind personal risk assessment. This may inform current thinking and practice of public health emergency medicine in managing emerging and re-emerging respiratory diseases with pandemic potential such as hPMV.
Authors
- Kimberley Gutu
- Palesa Mataboge
- F. Xavier Gómez‐Olivé (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4876-0848)
- Kathleen Kahn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3339-3931)
- Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5867-0336)
- Audrey E. Pettifor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3387-0817)
- Bianca Moffett (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8887-1374)
- Nicole K. Kelly (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1061-2767)
- Carren Ginsburg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8391-8268)
- Kelechi Elizabeth Oladimeji (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0246-5595)
- Armstrong Dzomba (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4242-6312)
Institutions
- South African Medical Research Council (ZA)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- University of South Africa (ZA)
- University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)
- Dublin City University (IE)
- University of KwaZulu-Natal (ZA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS ONE
- Published
- 2025-11-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319720
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00