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Beyond transmission: Dire need for integration of nutrition interventions in COVID-19 pandemic-response strategies in Developing Countries like Pakistan
Hakeem & Sheik (2020) highlight the urgent need for interventions particularly in developing countries in order to manage these COVID-19 infections, and propose several nutrition interventions to optimize quality of life during and after the pandemic. The authors point out the lack/limited evidence of diet being considered as part of current COVID-19 management strategies although it has not been refuted that nutrition has been associated with lowering the infection-related morbidity and mortality. Hazeem & Sheik (2020) accept that the low number of and variability of nutrition-related interventions may be expected but the delay in prioritising these types of interventions may have long-term effects on the economy and people’s quality of life. The authors state that safe and promising interventions are achievable and promote the following: better use of existing resources; quicker augmentation of nutrition status for those high-risk individuals and for non-hospitalized cases by use of supplement and individualized guidance; and nutritional support in severe cases through timely enteral and parenteral feeding. [NPIDs: COVID, coronavirus, pandemic, immunity, the immune system, COVID-19, quality of life, parenteral feeding]
Year: 2020
