Table 3 Spearman’s correlation of COVID-19 mortality, malaria prevalence and population variables
From: The association between malaria prevalence and COVID-19 mortality
Variables | Covid cases | Covid deaths | Malaria prevalence | Median age | Sex ratio | LE | Mortality rate | 65+ mortality | CVD mortality | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Covid cases | R | 1 | ||||||||
p | ||||||||||
Covid deaths | R | 0.934 | 1 | |||||||
p | 0.000 | |||||||||
Malaria prevalence | R | − 0.577 | − 0.499 | 1 | ||||||
p | 0.000 | 0.000 | ||||||||
Median age | R | 0.682 | 0.630 | − 0.775 | 1 | |||||
p | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |||||||
Sex ratio | R | − 0.242 | − 0.323 | 0.144 | − 0.317 | 1 | ||||
p | 0.001 | 0.000 | 0.051 | 0.000 | ||||||
Life expectancy | R | 0.658 | 0.580 | − 0.744 | 0.860 | − 0.118 | 1 | |||
p | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.109 | |||||
Mortality rate | R | 0.151 | 0.203 | − 0.008 | 0.283 | − 0.494 | − 0.080 | 1 | ||
p | 0.041 | 0.006 | 0.908 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.281 | ||||
65+ mortality | R | 0.659 | 0.605 | − 0.790 | 0.925 | − 0.274 | 0.913 | 0.192 | 1 | |
p | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.009 | |||
CVD mortality | R | − 0.350 | − 0.305 | 0.192 | − 0.385 | 0.063 | − 0.586 | 0.104 | − 0.432 | 1 |
p | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.009 | 0.000 | 0.398 | 0.000 | 0.161 | 0.000 |