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cord-329096-oitxf0fp	Poorolajal, Jalal	Geographical Distribution of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Worldwide	2020-09-30		.txt	text/plain	647	44	65	COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, is a highly contiguous infection that spread immediately across the world since its beginning in Wuhan, China on Dec 31, 2019 1 . Like any other disease, genetic variations in population across different areas of the world may affect the COVID-19 related morbidity and mortality. However, the geographical variation in COVID-19 cases and deaths is very wide following a mysterious pattern. The variation in the COVID-19 mortality rate is much wider than the disease prevalence in the western and eastern hemispheres. The geographical distribution of this disease does not seem to be related to the economic level of countries. If this was the case, it would be expected that the prevalence of disease and death rates due to COVID-19 would follow the pattern of the economic level of countries. This mysterious geographical distribution in COVID-19 cases and deaths is a question that should be answered.	./cache/cord-329096-oitxf0fp.txt	./txt/cord-329096-oitxf0fp.txt