Abstract
The Word Health Organization (WHO) declared in March 2020 that we are facing a pandemic designated as COVID-19, which is the acronym of coronavirus disease 2019, caused by a new virus know as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In Mexico, the first cases of COVID-19, was reported by the Secretary of Health on 28 February 2020. More than sixteen thousand cases and more than fifteen thousand deaths have been reported in Mexico, and it continues to rise; therefore, this article proposes two online visualization tools (a web platform) that allow the analysis of demographic data and comorbidities of the Mexican population. The objective of these tools is to provide graphic information, fast and updated, based on dataset obtained directly from National Governments Health Secretary (Secretaría de Salud, SSA) which is daily refreshed with the information related to SARS-CoV-2. To allow a dynamical update and friendly interface, and approach with R-project, a well-known Open Source language and environment for statistical computing and Shiny package, were implemented. The dataset is loaded automatically from the latest version released by the federal government of Mexico. Users can choose to study particular groups determined by gender, entity, type of result (positive, negative, pending outcome) and comorbidity. The image results are plots that can be instantly interpreted and supported by the text summary. This tool, in addition to being a consultation for the general public, is useful in Public Health to facilitate the visualization of the data, allowing its timely interpretation due to the changing nature of COVID-19, it can even be used for decision-making by leaders, for the benefit of the health of the community.
Highlights
The Word Health Organization (WHO) in January 2020 declared a state of emergency to address the outbreak of a virus in China, a group of cases of “atypical pneumonia” in Wuhan, Hubei province [1], which subsequently it was confirmed that the cause was a new virus, designated as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) [2]
In the layer that allows the demographic analysis (Figure 2), it is possible to make a selection of parameters within the options that concern the sex, the state of the country and the type of patient
This is the first free online tool to analyze the demographic and comorbidities characteristics for the Mexican population related to COVID-19
Summary
The Word Health Organization (WHO) in January 2020 declared a state of emergency to address the outbreak of a virus in China, a group of cases of “atypical pneumonia” in Wuhan, Hubei province [1], which subsequently it was confirmed that the cause was a new virus, designated as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) [2]. The WHO announced that the disease caused by this new coronavirus was a COVID-19, which is the acronym of “coronavirus disease. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 5173; doi:10.3390/ijerph17145173 www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph
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