Emily
Editor, Senior Moderator
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202004.0040/v1
Biswas, S.; Sukla, S. COVID-19 Infection and Transmission are Observably Less in Highly Dengue-endemic Countries. Preprints 2020, 2020040040 (doi: 10.20944/preprints202004.0040.v1).
Abstract
We observed that global severity maps of ongoing dengue epidemic and COVID-19 pandemic do not overlap. Countries where dengue is highly endemic (>1.5 million cases/year) appear to be less hit by COVID-19 pandemic in terms of infection and transmission. Other evidences also support our proposition that pre-exposure to other wide-spread viral infections like dengue may thwart the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.