Abstract
The aim was to describe the epidemiological profile of nursing professionals affected by COVID-19 in Brazil. This is an integrative review with a qualitative approach, using secondary information from public sources available at the Nursing Observatory of the Federal Council of Nursing. Data collection was carried out in August 2021, on the Virtual Health Library Portal, in the databases: LILACS, in the electronic library SciELO, BDENF, MEDLINE. It was identified that, 58,121 reported cases of nursing professionals infected by COVID-19 in Brazil, the total number of deaths corresponds to 858 cases with a case fatality rate of 2.65%. The case and mortality rates of nursing professionals affected by the virus are high and there is a significant difference in the number of cases between the years 2019 and 2021, so protecting the health of professionals working in the area is of paramount importance, since that they have direct contact with the infected person.
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