Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Brazil Task Force: How to navigate troubled waters

Marcelo Carneiro,Viviane Maria De Carvalho Hessel Dias,Olívia Cristina Palmeira Da Silva Rodrigues,Heiko Thereza Santana,Mirian De Freitas Dal Ben Corradi,Mara Rúbia Santos Gonçalves,Débora Otero Britto Passos Pinheiro,Maria Dolores Santos Da Purificação Nogueira,Maria Clara Padoveze,Magda Machado De Miranda Costa,Cláudia Fernanda De Lacerda Vidal

doi:10.1017/ice.2021.41

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The COVID-19 pandemic has called on national and international authorities, scientific societies, workers’ union, healthcare professional’s councils, organizations at multi-sectoral areas, and the entire population to apply strategies aimed at disease control and prevention, whilst facing many associated political and social challenges.[1]
The country has one of the largest universal public health systems in the world, the Brazilian Unified Health System, fully funded and articulated by the three of government levels - federal, state and municipal; with strong restriction of funding since 2016.2 This has been aggravated under the current emergency situation in public health could reach a collapse, leading to increased mortality due to lack of hospital beds and intensive care[3], exposing the several vulnerabilities of the system, similar to what has been perceived in other countries[4]
ABIH is a scientific, non-profit society, which main objectives comprise connecting professionals who work in infection control in the country, coordinating publications in the area and collaborating with academic organization to disseminate evidence-based

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The COVID-19 pandemic has called on national and international authorities, scientific societies, workers’ union, healthcare professional’s councils, organizations at multi-sectoral areas, and the entire population to apply strategies aimed at disease control and prevention, whilst facing many associated political and social challenges.[1]. Concerns related to the occupational risk of healthcare workers, has propelled a movement of workers’ unions, professional societies and councils, leading to a myriad of published documents with diverse and often conflicting recommendations, especially regarding the use of personal (PPE) and collective protective equipment.

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