Global underreporting of COVID-19 cases during 1 January 2020 to 6 May 2022

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2022

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Krantz, Steven G.
Swanson, David A.
S.R. Srinivasa Rao, Arni

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Globally, the number of reported COVID-19 cases from December 2019 to 6 May 2022 was 513,955,910 and the reported number of deaths during this period was 6,190,349 (ref. 1). The number of hospitali-zed cases all over the world due to the pandemic started declining at the begin-ning of April 2022 (ref. 2). Globally, the number of fully vaccinated individuals as of 6 May 2022 was 5.1 billion (ref. 1). Vaccinated individuals have higher chances of not being hospitalized2, but they still have some probability of acquiring the virus3. This indicates that COVID-19 transmission occurs between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.

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Krantz, S. G., Swanson, D. A., & Srinivasa Rao, A. S. R. (2022). Global underreporting of COVID-19 cases during 1 January 2020 to 6 May 2022. Current Science, 123(6), 741-742.

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