Background The COVID-19 pandemic brought countless challenges to public health and
highlighted the Brazilian health system vulnerabilities in facing the emergency. In this article …

This study aims to identify the risk factors associated with mortality and survival of COVID-19
cases in a state of the Brazilian Northeast. It is a historical cohort with a secondary database …

INTRODUCTION Five months after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Brazil, the
country has the second highest number of cases in the world. Without any scientifically …

Objective: to describe the evolution of COVID-19 in Brazil up until epidemiological week 20
of 2020. Methods: this is an ecological study based on data and official documents from the …

Background: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) became the deadliest pandemic of the
new millennium. One year after it became a pandemic, the current COVID-19 situation in …

The COVID-19 pandemic brings to light the reality of the Brazilian health system. The
underreporting of COVID-19 deaths in the state of Minas Gerais (MG), where the second …

Brazil is one of the epicenters of the COVID-19 pandemic and has reported 5,113,628 cases
and 150,998 deaths by the disease. Comparing the deaths by natural causes expected and …

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To estimate the 2020 all-cause and COVID-19 excess mortality
according to sex, age, race/color, and state, and to compare mortality rates by selected …

Background Most studies on the effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection have been conducted with
adults and non-pregnant women. Thus, its impacts on maternal health are not yet fully …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic brought a new challenge to maternal mortality in
Brazil. Throughout 2020, Brazil registered 549 maternal deaths, mainly in second and third …