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Exploring the links between flood events and the COVID-19 infection cases in Romania in the new multi-hazard-prone era

The occurrence of flood events amid the COVID-19 pandemic represents a prominent part of the emerging multi-hazard landscape, as floods are one of the most frequent and destructive natural hazards. This spatial and temporal overlap of hydrological and epidemiological hazards translates into compound...

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Autor principal: Albulescu, Andra-Cosmina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10032624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37251346
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-023-05918-x
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description The occurrence of flood events amid the COVID-19 pandemic represents a prominent part of the emerging multi-hazard landscape, as floods are one of the most frequent and destructive natural hazards. This spatial and temporal overlap of hydrological and epidemiological hazards translates into compounded negative effects, causing a shift in the hazard management paradigm, in which hazard interaction takes centre stage. This paper calls into question whether the river flood events that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania and the way that they were managed had an impact on the infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus at county scale. To this end, hazard management data concerning the flood events that were severe enough to impose the evacuation of the population were corroborated with COVID-19 confirmed cases data. A definite link between the flood events and the dynamics of COVID-19 cases registered in the selected counties is difficult to identify, but the analysis shows that all flood events were followed by various size increases in the COVID-19 confirmed cases at the end of the incubation time range. The findings are critically interpreted by providing viral load and social-related contexts, allowing a proper understanding of the interactions between concurrent hazards.
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spelling pubmed-100326242023-03-23 Exploring the links between flood events and the COVID-19 infection cases in Romania in the new multi-hazard-prone era Albulescu, Andra-Cosmina Nat Hazards (Dordr) Original Paper The occurrence of flood events amid the COVID-19 pandemic represents a prominent part of the emerging multi-hazard landscape, as floods are one of the most frequent and destructive natural hazards. This spatial and temporal overlap of hydrological and epidemiological hazards translates into compounded negative effects, causing a shift in the hazard management paradigm, in which hazard interaction takes centre stage. This paper calls into question whether the river flood events that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania and the way that they were managed had an impact on the infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus at county scale. To this end, hazard management data concerning the flood events that were severe enough to impose the evacuation of the population were corroborated with COVID-19 confirmed cases data. A definite link between the flood events and the dynamics of COVID-19 cases registered in the selected counties is difficult to identify, but the analysis shows that all flood events were followed by various size increases in the COVID-19 confirmed cases at the end of the incubation time range. The findings are critically interpreted by providing viral load and social-related contexts, allowing a proper understanding of the interactions between concurrent hazards. Springer Netherlands 2023-03-22 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10032624/ /pubmed/37251346 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-023-05918-x Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2023. Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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title_full Exploring the links between flood events and the COVID-19 infection cases in Romania in the new multi-hazard-prone era
title_fullStr Exploring the links between flood events and the COVID-19 infection cases in Romania in the new multi-hazard-prone era
title_full_unstemmed Exploring the links between flood events and the COVID-19 infection cases in Romania in the new multi-hazard-prone era
title_short Exploring the links between flood events and the COVID-19 infection cases in Romania in the new multi-hazard-prone era
title_sort exploring the links between flood events and the covid-19 infection cases in romania in the new multi-hazard-prone era
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10032624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37251346
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