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Record W4366962442 · doi:10.20431/2349-0381.0810013

Zimbabwe in the COVID-19 Era, a Critical Reflection on Third World Nation's Management of COVID-19

2023· article· en· W4366962442 on OpenAlexaff
Phillip Mutandwa, Pamela Chakombera, Dr Gerald Hangaika, Dr Wilson Mupariwa, Chamunorwa Muzondo

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicCOVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Victoria
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)PandemicReflection (computer programming)Critical reflectionVirologyPolitical scienceMedicineSociologyOutbreakComputer sciencePedagogyInfectious disease (medical specialty)

Abstract

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The research was a critical reflection on Zimbabwe as a third world country's management of COVID-19.The research was done utilizing existing data sets from the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare (2020).Assessment of the trendsin local cases in Zimbabwe after implementation of lockdown statutes, assessment of differences between and within provinces, strategies by institutions at various grassroots level that fed into the national agenda in dealing with COVID-19.The research was informed by the public health model.There were no significant differences between and within Zimbabwe's 10 provinces in terms of the spread and prevalence of Coronavirus after the 14 th of July 2020.The data set, also marked this data as significant to transmission of the first local cases of coronavirus in Zimbabwe, which signifies that it took at least 7 months before Zimbabwe was impacted from the initial start of the pandemic.Evidence presented that, although Zimbabwe was not at its best, the country managed COVID-19 cases at least under 10 000 with limited health care facilities which opens doors for inquiries on how and why such phenomenon was experienced in the period under review.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.208
Threshold uncertainty score0.414

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0060.007
Scholarly communication0.0090.008
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0040.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.253
GPT teacher head0.429
Teacher spread0.176 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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