Tracking excess deaths associated with the COVID-19 epidemic as an epidemiological surveillance strategy-preliminary results of the evaluation of six Brazilian capitals

Tracking excess deaths associated with the COVID-19 epidemic as an epidemiological surveillance strategy-preliminary results of the evaluation of six Brazilian capitals

Abstract INTRODUCTION: In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak a pandemic. In Brazil, 110 thousand cases and 5,901 deaths were confirmed by the end of April 2020. The scarcity of laboratory resources, the overload on the service network, an...

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Main Authors: André Ricardo Ribas Freitas, Nicole Montenegro de Medeiros, Livia Carla Vinhal Frutuoso, Otto Albuquerque Beckedorff, Lucas Mariscal Alves de Martin, Marcela Montenegro de Medeiros Coelho, Giovanna Gimenez Souza de Freitas, Daniele Rocha Queiróz Lemos, Luciano Pamplona de Góes Cavalcanti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2020-11-01
Series:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Subjects:
Excess mortality
COVID-19
Pandemic
Respiratory vírus
Epidemiological surveillance
Intelligence tool
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822020000100377&tlng=en

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