COVID-19 in Brazil: 150,000 deaths and the Brazilian underreporting

Brazil is one of the epicenters of the COVID-19 pandemic and has reported 5,113,628 cases and 150,998 deaths by the disease. Comparing the deaths by natural causes expected and the excess mortality rate, there is a 22% increase in deaths mainly of male patients and individuals over 60 years old.

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Autores principales: Carvalho, Tatiana Aline, Boschiero, Matheus Negri, Marson, Fernando Augusto Lima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7576323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33279819
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2020.115258
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description Brazil is one of the epicenters of the COVID-19 pandemic and has reported 5,113,628 cases and 150,998 deaths by the disease. Comparing the deaths by natural causes expected and the excess mortality rate, there is a 22% increase in deaths mainly of male patients and individuals over 60 years old.
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spelling pubmed-75763232020-10-21 COVID-19 in Brazil: 150,000 deaths and the Brazilian underreporting Carvalho, Tatiana Aline Boschiero, Matheus Negri Marson, Fernando Augusto Lima Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis Commentary Brazil is one of the epicenters of the COVID-19 pandemic and has reported 5,113,628 cases and 150,998 deaths by the disease. Comparing the deaths by natural causes expected and the excess mortality rate, there is a 22% increase in deaths mainly of male patients and individuals over 60 years old. Elsevier Inc. 2021-03 2020-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7576323/ /pubmed/33279819 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2020.115258 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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COVID-19 in Brazil: 150,000 deaths and the Brazilian underreporting
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title_short COVID-19 in Brazil: 150,000 deaths and the Brazilian underreporting
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7576323/
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