Low incidence of COVID-19 case severity and mortality in Africa; Could malaria co-infection provide the missing link?

Table 1 Summary of included studies and their sources

Study type	Number of studies	References
Co-infection reports	9	[8,9,10], [20,21,22,23,24,25]
COVID-19 and malaria synergy	5	[26,27,28,29,30]
Malaria protection against COVID-19	7	[13, 14], [31,32,33,34,35]
Syndemic impacts of COVID-19 on malaria	2	[36, 37]

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