The relationship between COVID-19 and food supply suggest some animal-origin foods as an excellent vehicle of SARS-Cov-2

Abstract

In the present study, we evaluated the impact of animal-origin food consumption on the recent pandemic of Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19). Thus, the relationship among animal-origin food supply as independent factor and total cases of COVID-19 as a dependent variable was assessed. In this regard, the relevance between the consumption quantity of foods (n = 20) and TC of COVID-19 in worldwide countries (n = 215) was evaluated. For more details, we studied the number of total case (TC) as a dependent variable and food supply as an independent variable. Food supply (kg/capita/yr.) was estimated in each country based on the latest available data of FAO. The results showed an association between a group of animal-origin foods and TC. Regression, Bayes, and Lasso ҆ s findings demonstrated that eggs and freshwater fish have a high positive correlation with TC. We suppose an important role for animal-origin foods concerning COVID-19 as a cross-contamination pathway. In conclusion, a noticeable vehicle for SARS-Cov-2 may be some of the animal-origin foods. The perspective is the development of surveillance of SARS-Cov-2 in the food production chain. Also, chicken‘s eggs and freshwater fish may be leading vehicles for SARS-Cov-2 by cross-contamination.

Keywords

• animal
• covid-19
• foodborne
• sars-cov2