Evolution of COVID-19 during the epidemiological week 16 to 53 of 2020 in the state of Acre Western Amazonia, Brazil

Authors

  • Edimilson Lima de Assis aABC Medical School (FMABC) – Santo André – SP and Brazil; cMultidisciplinary Laboratory of Studies and Scientific Writing in Health Sciences – LAMEECCS.
  • Mauro José de Deus Morais bLaboratory of Scientific Writing, Faculty of Medicine of ABC, Santo André, SP and Brazil. cMultidisciplinary Laboratory of Studies and Scientific Writing in Health Sciences – LAMEECCS.
  • Jorge de Oliveira Eichemberg aPós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde do Centro Universitário Saúde do ABC (FMABC), São Paulo, Brasil; bLaboratório de Delineamento de Estudos e Escrita Cientifica (FMABC), São Paulo, Brasil;
  • Valéria Rigamonte Azevedo de Assis cMultidisciplinary Laboratory of Studies and Scientific Writing in Health Sciences – LAMEECCS.
  • Hugo Macedo Junior b Laboratório de Delineamento de Estudos e Escrita Cientifica (FMABC), São Paulo, Brasil;
  • Maura Bianca Barbary de Deus cMultidisciplinary Laboratory of Studies and Scientific Writing in Health Sciences – LAMEECCS.
  • Luiz Carlos de Abreu aPós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde do Centro Universitário Saúde do ABC (FMABC), São Paulo-55-, Brasil; bLaboratório de Delineamento de Estudos e Escrita Cientifica (FMABC), São Paulo, Brasil; cLaboratório Multidisciplinar de estudos e Escrita Científica das Ciências da Saúde—LAMEECCS, UFAC, Acre, Brasil; dEscola Superior de Ciências da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Vitória (EMESCAM), Espírito Santo, Brazil; eCardiorespiratory Research Group, Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Oxford, OX3 0BP, United Kingdom.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36311/jhgd.v31.12611

Keywords:

COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, epidemiology, pandemic, health surveillance

Abstract

Introduction: coronavirus is part of a group of RNA viruses belonging to the Coronaviridae family, widely distributed in humans and other mammals. Currently, it has been seriously affecting the whole world, without a definitive cure yet.

Objective: to analyse the association between the HDI and confirmed cumulative cases of COVID-19 that occurred during epidemiological week 16 to 53 of 2020, in the State of Acre.

Methods: this is an ecological study of descriptive time series, evaluating the State of Acre and its 22 municipalities affected by COVID-19, in the period corresponding to the epidemiological weeks 16 to 53 of 2020. The State of Acre and its municipalities are aggregated by five regions with a total of approximately 881 thousand inhabitants, with an HDI of 0.663. Rio Branco is the state capital with 407,000 inhabitants. The 22 municipalities were analyzed, relating the HDI variables, confirmed cases per day and number of inhabitants to each other.

Results: it was observed that the population evaluated, affected by COVID-19 during SE 16 to 53 of 2020, in the State of Acre, had as predominant general characteristics brown skin color, male sex, and the evolution to death from the disease was related with older age and comorbidity. Acre had a mortality rate (deaths per 100,000 inhabitants) of 90.9 and a lethality rate of 1.9%, with the highest mortality rate observed in the municipality of Rio Branco (121.3/100,000 inhabitants) and lethality in Rodrigues Alves (2.9%). The incidence of COVID-19 in Acre was 4,759.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, the municipalities of Assis Brasil and Xapuri had the highest incidences in the state with 10273.7 and 9330.8 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants, respectively.

Conclusion: although the accumulated numbers of cases are different for the same day, the behavior is very similar, that is, the curves vary in the same way over time, regardless of the municipality observed.

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2021-12-01

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