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Comment
. 2020 May-Jun:35:101659.
doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101659. Epub 2020 Apr 9.

COVID-19 and dengue fever: A dangerous combination for the health system in Brazil

Camila Lorenz  1 , Thiago S Azevedo  2 , Francisco Chiaravalloti-Neto  3
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COVID-19 and dengue fever: A dangerous combination for the health system in Brazil

Camila Lorenz et al. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2020 May-Jun.
No abstract available

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declared no competing interests.

Figures

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Fig. 1
Hypothetical scenario of dengue and COVID-19 emergence. The number of dengue cases is inclined to increase at the start of the year due to the hot, humid weather, and hit a peak between March and April. The outbreak of COVID-19 in Brazil is predicted to peak sometime in the most favourable season for respiratory diseases between late April and early May. As the two outbreaks have a high likelihood of coinciding in terms of time, the burden of diseases may boost, requiring the Unified Health System (SUS) to put their greatest efforts into the double-fight against the outbreaks. *The number of dengue cases is not proportional to that of COVID-19 cases; this is only an extrapolation to visualize each peak.
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