COVID-19 as a leading cause of hospitalizations with death in the Brazilian Public Health System in 2020

As a consequence of COVID-19 high death toll, some countries, as the United States, already states COVID-19 as one of the leading causes of death of the year 2020 (Ahmad and Anderson, 2021). Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brazil has also experienced a rapid growing number of cases and deaths (Castro et al., 2021b). In addition, COVID-19 has spread asymmetrically and unequally across social and economic groups, as well as geographic regions in Brazil, with the most vulnerable population and the Northeastern and Northern regions being the most affected (Dall'Alba and Rocha, 2021; Rocha et al., 2021).

Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - October 1, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Ivan Ricardo Zimmermann, Mauro Niskier Sanchez, Layana Costa Alves, Gustavo Saraiva Frio, Fabr ício Vieira Cavalcante, Juan José Cortez-Escalante, Everton Nunes da Silva, Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos Tags: Short Communication Source Type: research