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Review
. 2020 Dec;10(2):020321.
doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.020321.

How prepared is Brazil to tackle the COVID-19 disease?

Rodrigo Martins Moreira  1 , Alejandra Carolina Villa Montoya  2 , Sara Line Silveria Araujo  1 , Rafaela Aparecida Trindade  1 , Dara da Cunha Oliveira  1 , Guilherme de Oliveira Marinho  1
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Review

How prepared is Brazil to tackle the COVID-19 disease?

Rodrigo Martins Moreira et al. J Glob Health. 2020 Dec.
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Competing interests: The authors completed the ICMJE Unified Competing Interest form (available upon request from the corresponding author), and declare no conflicts of interest.

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Figure 1
Key health infrastructure indicators to assess the preparedness of a country to tackle the Covid-19. Panel A. Confirmed cases distributed by regions (top left). Panel B. The spatial autocorrelation of pulmonary ventilators (top right). Panel C. Number of hospital beds (bottom left). Panel D. Number of pulmonary reanimators (bottom right). All figures are presented in municipal scale. NS – non significant, HH – High-High, LL – Low-Low, HL – High-Low, LH – Low-High.
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