Two hundred days of COVID-19 in São Paulo State, Brazil

Two hundred days after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Brazil, the epidemic has rapidly spread in metropolitan areas and advanced throughout the countryside. We followed the temporal epidemic pattern at São Paulo State, the most populous of the country, the first to have a confirmed case of...

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Autores principales: de Almeida, Gabriel Berg, Pronunciate, Micheli, Grotto, Rejane Maria Tommasini, Azevedo Pugliesi, Edmur, Guimarães, Raul Borges, Vilches, Thomas Nogueira, Mendes Coutinho, Renato, Catão, Rafael de Castro, Ferreira, Claudia Pio, Fortaleza, Carlos Magno Castelo Branco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7750657/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33261679
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268820002927
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Sumario:Two hundred days after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Brazil, the epidemic has rapidly spread in metropolitan areas and advanced throughout the countryside. We followed the temporal epidemic pattern at São Paulo State, the most populous of the country, the first to have a confirmed case of COVID-19, and the one with the most significant number of cases until now. We analysed the number of new cases per day in each regional health department and calculated the effective reproduction number (R(t)) over time. Social distance measures, along with improvement in testing and isolating positive cases, general population mask-wearing and standard health security protocols for essential and non-essential activities, were adopted and impacted on slowing down epidemic velocity but were insufficient to stop transmission.

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