Environmental circumstances that may have influenced the COVID-19 pandemic
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covid-19
population displacement
enviroment
origin of the pandemic
coronavirus
cardiovascular risk

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Lizcano, F., & Girone, M. G. (2020). Environmental circumstances that may have influenced the COVID-19 pandemic. Revista Colombiana De Endocrinología, Diabetes &Amp; Metabolismo, 7(2S), 113–118. https://doi.org/10.53853/encr.7.2S.596

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a shudder in the social bases in all countries of the world, with circumstances that will have health, cultural, economic and social implications that mark the beginning of the 21st century. To know the events that triggered this epidemic, we can analyze through a series of questions which objective facts were marking the beginning of the pandemic. Looking back, the events that started this infection can shed light on preventing future events of this nature. What were the circumstances that triggered the pandemic? It was a series of zoonotic transmissions that produced the infection in humans? Has the environment had anything to do with it? The challenge of the richest countries in the world to maintain hegemony will give way to a plethora of research on the biology of the virus, epidemiological variables, possible vaccines, and ways of preventing fatal outcomes in people with chronic cardiovascular risk diseases. This manuscript aims to analyze some of these questions.

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