A Critical Appraisal of COVID-19 in Malaysia and Beyond
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When the first report of COVID-19 appeared in December 2019 from Wuhan, China, the world unknowingly perceived this as another flu-like illness. Many were surprised at the extreme steps that China had subsequently taken to seal Wuhan from the rest of the world. However, by February 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, had spread so quickly across the globe that the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. COVID-19 is not the first pandemic the world has seen, so what makes it so unique in Malaysia, is discussed to avoid a future coronacoma.
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There has been scant literature quantifying psychological distress in the early surge of the pandemic, with mostly opinion pieces, case reports, and general overviews prevailing.
“Thus far, there has been scant literature quantifying this psychological distress in the early surge of the pandemic, with mostly opinion pieces, case reports, and general overviews prevailing [40,41,42].”
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The “Flattening the Curve” section discusses psychological distress and reports figures from one early COVID-19 survey in China. It does not assess how much quantitative research was available or say that opinion pieces, case reports, and overviews predominated. Searches for those publication types and for a shortage of quantitative studies found no supporting passage. (LLM, conf=0.76)
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- Authors
- Editorial Board Member, M. J. O. M. S., Abdullah, J. M., Brain Behaviour Cluster and Department of Neurosciences, S. O. M. S., Wan Ismail, W. F. N., Editorial Board Member, M. J. O. M. S., Department of Orthopaedics, S. O. M. S., Mohamad, I., Editorial Board Member, M. J. O. M. S., Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, S. O. M. S., Ab Razak, A., Department of Psychiatry, S. O. M. S., Harun, A., Editorial Board Member, M. J. O. M. S., Department of Medical Microbiology & Parasitology, S. O. M. S., Musa, K. I., Editorial Board Member, M. J. O. M. S., Department of Community Medicine, S. O. M. S., Lee, Y. Y., Editorial Board Member, M. J. O. M. S., & Department of Medicine, S. O. M. S.
- Affiliations
- Universiti Sains Malaysia (MY)
- Corresponding author
- Abdullah, Jafri Malin
- Venue
- Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences
- Publisher
- Universiti Sains Malaysia
- Published
- 2020
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 1-9
- ISSN
- 1394-195X (ISSN-L)
- 2180-4303
- PMC
- PMC7153689
- OpenAlex
- W3015295199
- Cited by
- 69
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 14
- FWCI
- 2.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Universiti Sains Malaysia Institutional Repository (Universiti Sains Malaysia) (acceptedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Modeling and Simulation › COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › COVID-19 Prevention and Impact
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, pandemic, Malaysia, pandemic preparedness, public health response, history of pandemics
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