Decreased incidence, virus transmission capacity, and severity of COVID-19 at altitude on the American continent

• Christian Arias-Reyes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Institute Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec (IUCPQ), Québec, Quebec City, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2802-8112

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• Favio Carvajal-Rodriguez,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Institute Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec (IUCPQ), Québec, Quebec City, Canada

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• Liliana Poma-Machicao,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Institute Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec (IUCPQ), Québec, Quebec City, Canada

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• Fernanda Aliaga-Raduán,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Institute Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec (IUCPQ), Québec, Quebec City, Canada

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• Danuzia A. Marques,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Institute Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec (IUCPQ), Québec, Quebec City, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4144-2166

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• Natalia Zubieta-DeUrioste,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation High Altitude Pulmonary and Pathology Institute (HAPPI-IPPA), La Paz, Bolivia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2675-5025

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• Roberto Alfonso Accinelli,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones de la Altura, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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• Edith M. Schneider-Gasser,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Veterinary Physiology, Vetsuisse-Faculty University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7371-1477

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• Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation High Altitude Pulmonary and Pathology Institute (HAPPI-IPPA), La Paz, Bolivia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4283-6514

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• Mathias Dutschmann,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0692-746X

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• Jorge Soliz

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jorge.soliz@crchuq.ulaval.ca

  Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Institute Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec (IUCPQ), Québec, Quebec City, Canada, High Altitude Pulmonary and Pathology Institute (HAPPI-IPPA), La Paz, Bolivia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2335-5862

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