COVID-19 mortality and lethality in the State of Pará, legal Amazon, Brazil

Célia Guarnieri Da Silva,Mariane Albuquerque Lima Ribeiro,Carlos Bandeira De Mello Monteiro,Tassiane Cristina Morais,Laércio Da Silva Paiva,Maura Regina Ribeiro,Luiz Vinicius De Alcantara Sousa

doi:10.36311/jhgd.v31.12605

Abstract

Introduction: the growth of coronavirus indices in the North region highlights the region’s historical social inequalities and the problems in accessing citizenship. Objective: to analyze the mortality and lethality of COVID-19 in the state of Pará, Brazil. Methods: this is an ecological study with a time series design of secondary data. All registered cases and deaths reported by COVID-19 in the period from March 2020 to June 2021, in the state of Pará, Brazil, were considered. The incidence and mortality and lethality rates were used. The daily percentage variation and their respective 95% confidence intervals were estimated. Results: the total number of confirmed cases and deaths from COVID-19 in the state of Pará was 552,937 and 15,469, respectively, from March 2020 to June 2021. Incidence and mortality rates from March 2020 to June 2021 were, respectively, 6,407.9 and 179.3 per 100,000 inhabitants and the lethality was 43.3. Regarding the analysis of the daily trend of rates in the period from March 2020 to June 2021, both mortality and incidence increased. Conclusion: it was found that the behavior of the trend of rates in the first wave was increasing in the incidence of confirmed cases and the lethality decreasing, and in the second wave, the mortality and lethality rates were increasing.

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In the year 2020, an outbreak of the new Coronavirus in China became an international public health problem
A pandemic was declared with different impacts signaled by the World Health Organization (WHO)
South America was recently declared by the World Health Organization as a new epicenter of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic[2]

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In the year 2020, an outbreak of the new Coronavirus in China became an international public health problem. A pandemic was declared with different impacts signaled by the World Health Organization (WHO). South America was recently declared by the World Health Organization as a new epicenter of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic[2]. With death records exceeding 500 thousand victims of the disease, the lack of control of the pandemic in the country is worrying[4]. It began in 2021 without effective intervention measures, strategies for health promotion and combating the virus, overloading the hospital system, general beds, and intensive care units (ICU)[5]

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