The Problem Statement

It was found that patients presenting to hospitals and healthcare institutes with mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms like mild pneumonia, diarrhea, headache and musculoskeletal symptoms caused a strain on medical resources and contributed to even more COVID-19 cases.

This could have been avoided if the patients were instructed to isolate themselves in their homes and smart technology dedicated to such issues was available to them in order to employ self-care routines and nurse themselves back to health.

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Literature Survey

Paulo Mecenas, Renata Travassos da Rosa Moreira Bastos, Antonio Carlos Rosário Vallinoto and David Normando (2020) performed an examination of existing scientific evidence on warm climates and rate of infection, and 517 scientific articles. Their findings showed that cold and dry conditions were potentiating factors on the spread of the virus. They performed a risk of bias assessment using the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Critical Appraisal Checklist tool. They observed a homogeneity between the results reported by the included studies and the ground truth.

The figure on the left is the flow diagram of study identification Paulo Mecenas, Renata Travassos da Rosa Moreira Bastos, Antonio Carlos Rosário Vallinoto and David Normando (2020) employed to observe the relation between COVID-19 infection rates with the climate.

The steps being Identification, Screening, Eligibility and Included. Identification was performed by acquiring papers, Screening was performed by referencing electronic searches, Eligibility was performed by making literature reviews and performing predictive study and finally Included performs qualitative synthesis of all review conclusions

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