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cord-325931-9gqonmf5	Nguimkeu, Pierre	Why is the Number of COVID-19 Cases Lower Than Expected in Sub-Saharan Africa? A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Role of Demographic and Geographic Factors	2020-10-21		.txt	text/plain	5977	262	49	Subject to the above-mentioned data quality caveats, our results provide conclusive evidence that the relatively low progression of the epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa and the gap observed in the number of active cases compared to the rest of the world can be partly explained by the differences in demographic and geographic factors. where denotes the true COVID-19 outcome variable in country (e.g., log Active Cases); is a binary indicator * (dummy variable) for sub-Saharan Africa, which equals 1 if country is a sub-Sahara African country, and equals 0 otherwise; is the duration of the epidemic in country (i.e. the number of days elapsed since the first confirmed case was reported in country ); is a vector of explanatory variables including epidemiological, = [ 2 ,…, ] demographic, environmental, economic and health infrastructure factors in country ;	./cache/cord-325931-9gqonmf5.txt	./txt/cord-325931-9gqonmf5.txt