Burden of SARS-CoV-2 infection among nursing professionals in Brazil.

Roberto Carlos Lyra Da Silva,Antônio Augusto De Freitas Peregrino,Thiago Quinellato Louro,Carlos Roberto Lyra Da Silva,Cristiano Bertolossi Marta,Daniel Aragão Machado

doi:10.1590/0034-7167-2020-0783

Abstract

Estimate the burden of SARS-CoV-2 infection among nursing professionals in Brazil. Ecological study using data from the Nursing Observatory. The weight attributed to diseases was based on the Global Disease Burden Study 2017, considering the lower respiratory infection as moderate. 7,201 records were analyzed; and, 190 deaths were recorded. The total number of years of life adjusted for disability was 5,825.35 years, with an average of 2,912.76 (95% CI 2,876.49-2,948.86). The adjusted rate per thousand professionals was 1,475.94 years for men and 674.23 years for women. SARS-CoV-2 infection in Brazil follows an upward trend in nursing and has a major impact among women, nursing technicians and younger professionals.

Highlights

COVID-19 is a new viral disease that has caused health systems worldwide to collapse, partly because of the high number of casualties among health professionals, especially nursing professionals
On the website of the Nursing Observatory1, accessed on July 5, 2020, a total of 21,767 case records of nursing professionals allegedly infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-CoV-2
Four months after the registration of the first confirmed case of a nursing professional infected with coronavirus in Brazil, the number of new cases continues to increase

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Introduction

COVID-19 is a new viral disease that has caused health systems worldwide to collapse, partly because of the high number of casualties among health professionals, especially nursing professionals. The SARS-CoV-2 virus, of the Coronaviridae family, was identified in China in December 2019, in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, which quickly became the epicenter of a pandemic allegedly linked to the“new coronavirus associated with acute respiratory syndrome severe”(SARS CoV-2), which causes infectious disease by coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19)(1). Studies suggest that environmental contamination, due to the elimination of respiratory strays in individuals with SARS-CoV-2, whether symptomatic or not, can make the environment, especially the hospital, a potential means of transmission. In this context, health professionals were quickly recognized as a high risk group for infection[3]

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