Remaining a major healthcare concern with nearly 29 million confirmed cases worldwide at the time of writing, novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused more than 920 thousand deaths since its outbreak in China, December 2019. First ca...

The keynote presentation at UCT's event for Open Data Day 2021.<div><br></div><div> Addresses the difficulty of gaining access to sensitive data in South Africa during the Covid-19 pandemic.</div>

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p><jats:bold>Background</jats:bold>: New corona virus outbreak originated in Wuhan, China, started in January 2020 is escalating as pandemic across the globe in March 2020. It causes unprecedented morbidity, shocked health systems...

<p>An online search of government websites and published literature was performed for regional data reports on COVID-19 cases that included sex as a variable from 1^st January 2020 up until 1^st June 2020 (Search terms: COVID-19/case/sex/country/data...

This model assesses the potential economic burden of alcohol-related injuries in South Africa. <div><br></div><div>In addition to provider costs for each injury, the model calculates number of outpatient visits, general ward inpatient days and ICU days needed per event....

<table><tr><td>MODEL STRATEGIES</td></tr><tr><td>This model assesses costs and outcomes for admitted severe and critical Covid-19 patients from time of admission to discharge or death.</td></tr><tr><td><br>Two competing strategies are modelled:</td></tr><tr><td>1. The "...

As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, the demands on the health care system will intensify and will result in critical shortages of resources (hospital beds, intensive care unit (ICU) beds, ventilators, medical workforce), particularly in the public sector. Given the exp...

The outbreak of COVID-19 started in mid-December 2019 in Wuhan, China. Up to 29 February 2020, SARS-CoV-2 (HCoV-19 / 2019-nCoV) had infected more than 85 000 people in the world. In this study, we used 93 complete genomes of SARS-CoV-2 from the GISAID EpiFlu TM database...

The global pandemic of COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 (also known as 2019-nCoV and HCoV-19) has posed serious threats to public health and economic stability worldwide, thus calling for development of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 and other emerging and reemerging coronavi...