Huang, Junjie
Teoh, Jeremy Yuen-Chun
Wong, Sunny H.
Wong, Martin C. S. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7706-9370
Article History
Received: 5 June 2020
Accepted: 4 August 2020
First Online: 10 August 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: None declared.
: Owing to the limits of the reference section, the references for the 2019 Novel COVID-19 data repository by the Johns Hopkins Centre for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE), INFORM COVID-19 Risk Index, Testing Policies, Democracy Index, Scientific Citation Index, GDP, HDI and population density are listed below, respectively: (1) The 2019 Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) data repository by Johns Hopkins Centre for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE). Available at: ExternalRef removed. Accessed on 05 June, 2020. (2) INFORM COVID-19 Risk Index. Available at: ExternalRef removed. Accessed on 22 July, 2020. (3) COVID-19 Testing Policies. Available at: ExternalRef removed. Accessed on 24 July, 2020. (4) Democracy Index 2019. Available at: ExternalRef removed. Accessed on 14 July, 2020. (5) Scientific Citation Index. Available at: ExternalRef removed. Accessed on 23 July, 2020. (6) The Economist Intelligence Unit, World Bank and Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook. Available at: ExternalRef removed. Accessed on 05 June, 2020; (7) 2019 Human Development Index Ranking. United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Reports. Available at: ExternalRef removed. Accessed on 05 June, 2020. (8) Countries by density by population 2020. World Population Review. Available at: ExternalRef removed. Accessed on 05 June, 2020. A 30-day period was used based on references from published reports (9) Data on the countries affected by SARS and MERS were extracted from the WHO (10, 11) listed below: (9). Medium. COVID-19 prevalence and estimated spread in NH. Available at: ExternalRef removed. Accessed on 05 June, 2020. (10) WHO. Summary of probably SARS cases with onset of illness from 1 November 2002 to 31 July 2003. Available at: ExternalRef removed. Accessed on 05 June, 2020; (11) WHO. Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). Available at: ExternalRef removed. Accessed on 05 June, 2020. We have also examined the association between public interest on face mask and COVID-19 incidence/mortality, and published the findings at: (12) Sunny H Wong, Jeremy YC Teoh, Chi-Ho Leung, William KK Wu, Benjamin HK Yip, Martin CS Wong, David SC Hui. COVID-19 and public interest in face mask. <i>American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine</i> 2020, ExternalRef removed.
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