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

doi:10.7189/jogh.10.020321

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. 2020 Dec;10(2):020321.

doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.020321.

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

Rodrigo Martins Moreira¹, Alejandra Carolina Villa Montoya², Sara Line Silveria Araujo¹, Rafaela Aparecida Trindade¹, Dara da Cunha Oliveira¹, Guilherme de Oliveira Marinho¹

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¹ Department of Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Rondônia, Brazil.
² Faculty of Basic Sciences and Common Areas, CBATA Group (Applied basic sciences), Tecnológico de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.

PMID: 33110523
PMCID: PMC7561213
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.10.020321

Review

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

Rodrigo Martins Moreira et al. J Glob Health. 2020 Dec.

. 2020 Dec;10(2):020321.

doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.020321.

Authors

Rodrigo Martins Moreira¹, Alejandra Carolina Villa Montoya², Sara Line Silveria Araujo¹, Rafaela Aparecida Trindade¹, Dara da Cunha Oliveira¹, Guilherme de Oliveira Marinho¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Rondônia, Brazil.
² Faculty of Basic Sciences and Common Areas, CBATA Group (Applied basic sciences), Tecnológico de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.

PMID: 33110523
PMCID: PMC7561213
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.10.020321

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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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[1] Armocida B, Formenti B, Palestra F, Ussai S, Missoni E.COVID-19: Universal health coverage now more than ever. J Glob Health. 2020;10:010350. 10.7189/jogh.10.010350 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[2] Armocida B, Formenti B, Palestra F, Ussai S, Missoni E.COVID-19: Universal health coverage now more than ever. J Glob Health. 2020;10:010350. 10.7189/jogh.10.010350 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[3] Rodriguez-Morales AJ, Pablo J, Antezana E, Rodriguez-morales AJ, Escalera-antezana JP, Mendez CA.COVID-19 in Latin America: the implications of the first confirmed case in Brazil. Travel Med Infect Dis. In press. 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101613 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[4] Rodriguez-Morales AJ, Pablo J, Antezana E, Rodriguez-morales AJ, Escalera-antezana JP, Mendez CA.COVID-19 in Latin America: the implications of the first confirmed case in Brazil. Travel Med Infect Dis. In press. 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101613 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[5] Filho TMR, Sherine F, Gomes VB, Rocha AH, Henrique J, Croda R, et al. Expected impact of COVID-19 outbreak in a major metropolitan area in Brazil. medRxiv. 2020. Available: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.14.20035873v1. Accessed: 21 April 2020.

[6] Filho TMR, Sherine F, Gomes VB, Rocha AH, Henrique J, Croda R, et al. Expected impact of COVID-19 outbreak in a major metropolitan area in Brazil. medRxiv. 2020. Available: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.14.20035873v1. Accessed: 21 April 2020.

[7] Zhou C, Su F, Pei T, Zhang A, Du Y, Luo B, et al. COVID-19: Challenges to GIS with Big Data. Geogr Sustain. doi: 10.1016/j.geosus.2020.03.005. In press. - DOI

[8] Zhou C, Su F, Pei T, Zhang A, Du Y, Luo B, et al. COVID-19: Challenges to GIS with Big Data. Geogr Sustain. doi: 10.1016/j.geosus.2020.03.005. In press. - DOI

[9] Ministry of Health Brazil. DataSUS 2020. 2020. Available: http://www2.datasus.gov.br/DATASUS/index.php?area=02. Accessed: 21 April 2020.

[10] Ministry of Health Brazil. DataSUS 2020. 2020. Available: http://www2.datasus.gov.br/DATASUS/index.php?area=02. Accessed: 21 April 2020.

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