Societal and economic factors associated with COVID-19 indicate that developing countries could suffer the most

Societal and economic factors associated with COVID-19 indicate that developing countries could suffer the most

Alessandro Maria Selvitella, Kathleen Lois Foster

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.

2020

covid-19, LASSO, variable selection, socioeconomic determinants, explainability

Epidemiology and Health

Korean Society of Epidemiology

Social sciences (General)