Inverse Correlation between Dengue Fever and COVID-19 spread in Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia
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Abstract
COVID-19 incidence in Brazil was obtained from Brasil.io (https://brasil.io/covid19/), which compiles data from all the Brazilian state health agencies and was accessed on 2020-10-06. The period considered in the analysis was from the first COVID-19 case to the 26th epidemiological week of 2020 (which ends on the 27 th of June 2020). The COVID-19 incidence in countries around the world was
collected from Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins
University (JHU) (https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/).
State-level data were considered for Colombia and Mexico, and a country-level was considered for the other countries under
investigation. Dengue epidemiological and serological data was compiled from data published regularly in the official epidemiological bulletins during 2019 and 2020 by the Brazilian Ministry of Health (Ministério da Saúde, 2020a and 2020b). The incidence available via
DATASUS (2020) considered the period from the 27th epidemiological week of 2019 to the 26th epidemiological week of 2020. This incidence for Latin American countries was collected from the Pan American Health Organization (www.paho.org), which also
provides dengue incidence data on a state level for Mexico. For Colombian states data was collected from bulletins made available by the Colombian Health Ministry (https://www.minsalud.gov.co). For other countries considered data was collected from disease threat reports provided by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - (ECDC - www.ecdc.europa.eu).
For more information about the datasets and the analysis of them please contact the authors.