Abstract
The pandemic caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - Related Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has made socio-economic inequalities between social classes more evident in the countries in development process. This scenario is also no different in Brazil and it has been demanding from the federal, state and municipal governments broad efforts to combat the consequences of the spread of the disease in Brazil. The rulers have a huge challenge to implement measures to prevent the advance of the transmission of the virus. In addition, state governments need to use the public health system to serve the main population, since the lethality rate is very high directly influenced by social inequality. To minimize the effects of the new coronavirus, the ruler needs planning to give efficient response and requires an understanding of the rich that people about free movement, controlled circulation or total blocking of population movement. In this context, our proposal was to investigate how the disease reached people of different levels of education. And how has been the response of people hospitalized in Brazilian hospitals. We analyzed the public data of reports of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SRAG). In our research, we considered the variables schooling, ethnicity, gender, time of hospitalization in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and use of mechanical ventilators. Our results indicate that the lethality rate is higher for those people who were admitted to the ICU. In addition, people with low schooling and no schooling are 3.6 times more likely to die than people with higher education. This discrepancy highlights the huge disparity of quality treatment in Brazilian states.
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