COVID-19: Nothing is normal in this pandemic
- Authors: Luzia Gonçalves, Maria Antónia Amaral Turkman, Carlos Geraldes, Tiago A Marques, Lisete Sousa
- Publication Year: 2021
- Journal: Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, 11(2), pp 146 - 149
- Link: https://doi.org/10.2991/jegh.k.210108.001
ABSTRACT This manuscript brings attention to inaccurate epidemiological concepts that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. In social media and scientific journals, some wrong references were given to a “normal epidemic curve” and also to a “log-normal curve/distribution”. For many years, textbooks and courses of reputable institutions and scientific journals have disseminated misleading concepts. For example, […]
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