Cüneyt ARDIÇ, Kerem UZUN, Ayşe Yazan ARSLAN, Ayse ŞAHİN, Melek HÜR, Merve Nur SERÇE, Selma TÜRKER, Büşra USLUOĞLU, Mert SÜZÜK, Didem SARIMEHMET

COVID-19 PANDEMİ SÜRECİ: YAYILMA HIZI, ÖLÜM ORANI VE ALINAN ÖNLEMLER AÇISINDAN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ

Amaç: 31 Aralık 2019'da Dünya Sağlık Örgütü (DSÖ) Çin Ülke Ofisi, Çin'in Hubei eyaletinin Vuhan şehrinde etiyolojisi bilinmeyen pnömoni vakalarını bildirmiştir. 7 Ocak 2020’de etken daha önce insanlarda tespit edilmemiş yeni bir Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) olarak tanımlanmıştır. Neredeyse tüm dünyaya yayılan bu durum sonrası Dünya Sağlık Örgütü tarafından bu salgın pandemi olarak ilan edilmiştir. Bu çalışmanın amacı pandemiyi 8 farklı ülkede analiz etmektir. Materyal ve Metot: Çalışmaya 04.05.2020 tarihi itibari ile dünyada en fazla vakanın görüldüğü ülkeler (A.B.D, Çin, İtalya, Almanya, İran, Fransa, Türkiye) ve Güney Kore’yi dahil ettik. Ülkelerin toplam vaka ve ölüm sayılarını, ölüm oranlarını, 65 yaş üstü nüfus oranlarını ve alınan tedbirlerin tarihlerini birbirleriyle kıyaslayarak analiz ettik. Bulgular: Tüm dünyadaki COVID’li vaka sayısı 3,6 milyonu aşmıştı ve bu vakaların yaklaşık 75,2% si 7 ülkede (A.B.D, İtaya, Çin, Almanya, Fransa, İran, Türkiye) görülmekteydi ve yine aynı tarihte (04.05.2020) dünyadaki ölüm sayısı 250 bini aşmıştı. Sonuç: Sağlık alanından ekonomiye kadar toplumu tüm yönleriyle etkilemiş olan son yüzyılın belki de insanlık tarihinin en büyük pandemisiyle karşı karşıyayız. İnsanlık tarihi için pandemiyle mücadeledeki en büyük silah ülkelerin bilgi birikimlerini birbirlerine aktarmaları olacaktır

COVID-19 PANDEMIC PROCESS: ITS EVALUATION IN TERMS OF SPREADING RATE, MORTALITY RATE AND PRECAUTIONS TAKEN

Objectives: On 31 December 2019, the China Country Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) reportedon cases of pneumonia with unknown etiology in the Wuhan city of the province of Hubei. On 7 January 2020,the factor was defined as a new Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that had not been detected in humans before. Theaim of this study is to analyze the pandemic in 8 different countries.Materials and Methods: In the study, we included the countries with the highest numbers of cases by the date04.05.2020 (USA, China, Italy, Germany, Iran, France, Turkey), as well as South Korea. We comparativelyanalyzed the countries’ total case and mortality numbers, mortality rates, over-65 years old population ratesand dates of precautions that were taken.Results: The number of COVID cases in the entire world exceeded 3.6 million, and approximately 75.2% ofthese cases were seen in 7 countries (USA, Italy, China, Germany, France, Iran, Turkey), whereas the number ofrelated deaths worldwide exceeded 250 thousand by the same date (04.05.2020).Conclusion: We are facing the greatest pandemic of the last century, or even the history of humanity, whichhas affected the society in all aspects from the field of medicine to economics. The greatest weapon for thehistory of humanity in the fight against the pandemic would be countries’ transfer of their knowledge to eachother.

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