Two Hundred Days of COVID-19 in São Paulo State, Brazil

Overview

Journal Epidemiol Infect

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Specialties Infectious Diseases
Public Health

Date 2020 Dec 2

PMID 33261679

Citations 7

Authors

Gabriel Berg de Almeida

Micheli Pronunciate

Rejane Maria Tommasini Grotto

Edmur Azevedo Pugliesi

Raul Borges Guimaraes

Thomas Nogueira Vilches

Renato Mendes Coutinho

Rafael de Castro Catao

Claudia Pio Ferreira

Carlos Magno Castelo Branco Fortaleza

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Abstract

Two hundred days after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Brazil, the epidemic has rapidly spread in metropolitan areas and advanced throughout the countryside. We followed the temporal epidemic pattern at São Paulo State, the most populous of the country, the first to have a confirmed case of COVID-19, and the one with the most significant number of cases until now. We analysed the number of new cases per day in each regional health department and calculated the effective reproduction number (Rt) over time. Social distance measures, along with improvement in testing and isolating positive cases, general population mask-wearing and standard health security protocols for essential and non-essential activities, were adopted and impacted on slowing down epidemic velocity but were insufficient to stop transmission.

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