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Outcomes of COVID-19 in the Eastern Mediterranean Region in the first 4 months of the pandemic

Ahmed S. BaHammam, Khalid M. Bindayna, Ronni M. Joji, Haitham Jahrami, Mo’ez Al-Islam E. Faris and Nicola L. Bragazzi
Saudi Medical Journal September 2020, 41 (9) 907-915; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.9.25320
Ahmed S. BaHammam
From the Department of Medicine (BaHammam), College of Medicine, Respiratory Medicine, University Sleep Disorders Center, King Saud University; from The Strategic Technologies Program of the National Plan for Sciences and Technology and Innovation (BaHammam), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; College of Medicine and Medical Sciences (Bindayna, Joji, Jahrami), Arabian Gulf University; from the Rehabilitation Services Department, Ministry of Health (Jahrami), Manama, Bahrain; from the Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics (Faris), College of Health Sciences/Research Institute of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; and from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Bragazzi), York University, Toronto, Canada
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Khalid M. Bindayna
From the Department of Medicine (BaHammam), College of Medicine, Respiratory Medicine, University Sleep Disorders Center, King Saud University; from The Strategic Technologies Program of the National Plan for Sciences and Technology and Innovation (BaHammam), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; College of Medicine and Medical Sciences (Bindayna, Joji, Jahrami), Arabian Gulf University; from the Rehabilitation Services Department, Ministry of Health (Jahrami), Manama, Bahrain; from the Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics (Faris), College of Health Sciences/Research Institute of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; and from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Bragazzi), York University, Toronto, Canada
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Ronni M. Joji
From the Department of Medicine (BaHammam), College of Medicine, Respiratory Medicine, University Sleep Disorders Center, King Saud University; from The Strategic Technologies Program of the National Plan for Sciences and Technology and Innovation (BaHammam), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; College of Medicine and Medical Sciences (Bindayna, Joji, Jahrami), Arabian Gulf University; from the Rehabilitation Services Department, Ministry of Health (Jahrami), Manama, Bahrain; from the Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics (Faris), College of Health Sciences/Research Institute of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; and from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Bragazzi), York University, Toronto, Canada
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Haitham Jahrami
From the Department of Medicine (BaHammam), College of Medicine, Respiratory Medicine, University Sleep Disorders Center, King Saud University; from The Strategic Technologies Program of the National Plan for Sciences and Technology and Innovation (BaHammam), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; College of Medicine and Medical Sciences (Bindayna, Joji, Jahrami), Arabian Gulf University; from the Rehabilitation Services Department, Ministry of Health (Jahrami), Manama, Bahrain; from the Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics (Faris), College of Health Sciences/Research Institute of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; and from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Bragazzi), York University, Toronto, Canada
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Mo’ez Al-Islam E. Faris
From the Department of Medicine (BaHammam), College of Medicine, Respiratory Medicine, University Sleep Disorders Center, King Saud University; from The Strategic Technologies Program of the National Plan for Sciences and Technology and Innovation (BaHammam), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; College of Medicine and Medical Sciences (Bindayna, Joji, Jahrami), Arabian Gulf University; from the Rehabilitation Services Department, Ministry of Health (Jahrami), Manama, Bahrain; from the Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics (Faris), College of Health Sciences/Research Institute of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; and from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Bragazzi), York University, Toronto, Canada
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Nicola L. Bragazzi
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vol. 41 no. 9 907-915
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.9.25320
PubMed 
32893272

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received May 28, 2020
  • Accepted August 9, 2020
  • Published online September 1, 2020.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Ahmed S. BaHammam, MD⇑,
  2. Khalid M. Bindayna, PhD,
  3. Ronni M. Joji, MD,
  4. Haitham Jahrami, PhD,
  5. Mo’ez Al-Islam E. Faris, PhD and
  6. Nicola L. Bragazzi, PhD
  1. From the Department of Medicine (BaHammam), College of Medicine, Respiratory Medicine, University Sleep Disorders Center, King Saud University; from The Strategic Technologies Program of the National Plan for Sciences and Technology and Innovation (BaHammam), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; College of Medicine and Medical Sciences (Bindayna, Joji, Jahrami), Arabian Gulf University; from the Rehabilitation Services Department, Ministry of Health (Jahrami), Manama, Bahrain; from the Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics (Faris), College of Health Sciences/Research Institute of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; and from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Bragazzi), York University, Toronto, Canada
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Prof. Ahmed BaHammam, Director, Respiratory Medicine, University Sleep Disorders Center, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.E-mail: ashammam2{at}gmail.com ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1706-6167
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