Concern for severe COVID-19 disease during the initial two years of pandemic in a rural South African community: A population-based study

• Armstrong Dzomba ,

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

  * E-mail: dzombaarmstrong625@gmail.com

  Affiliation School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health, Dublin City University, Glasnevin Campus, Dublin, Ireland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4242-6312

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• Palesa Mataboge,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Conceptualization

  Affiliation School of Built Environment and Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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• Nicole K. Kelly,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1061-2767

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• Kelechi Elizabeth Oladimeji,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Ezintsha, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Carren Ginsburg,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Research Council/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Bianca Moffett,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Research Council/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Chodziwadziwa Kabudula,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Research Council/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Kimberley Gutu,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation South African Medical Research Council Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Audrey Pettifor,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Data curation

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Medical Research Council/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Research Council/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Kathleen Kahn

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Medical Research Council/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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