The Amplifying Effect of Conflicts on Case Fatality Rate of COVID-19: Evidence From 120 Countries

Yonghui Zhai; Dayang Jiang; Giray Gozgor; Eunho Cho

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2021.681604

Frontiers in Public Health (Aug 2021)

The Amplifying Effect of Conflicts on Case Fatality Rate of COVID-19: Evidence From 120 Countries

Yonghui Zhai,
Dayang Jiang,
Giray Gozgor,
Eunho Cho

Affiliations

Yonghui Zhai: School of Business, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China
Dayang Jiang: School of Economics, Tianjin University of Commerce, Tianjin, China
Giray Gozgor: Faculty of Political Sciences, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey
Eunho Cho: Accounting and Finance Department, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC, United States

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.681604
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9

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Using the COVID-19 database of Johns Hopkins University, this study examines the determinants of the case fatality rate of COVID-19. We consider various potential determinants of the mortality risk of COVID-19 in 120 countries. The Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and the Kernel-based Regularized Least Squares (KRLS) estimations show that internal and external conflicts are positively related to the case fatality rates. This evidence is robust to the exclusion of countries across different regions. Thus, the evidence indicates that conflict may explain significant differences in the case fatality rate of COVID-19 across countries.

Published in Frontiers in Public Health

ISSN: 2296-2565 (Online)
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine
Website: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health

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