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Arch Med 2021; 21 (2)

Descriptive study of the initial cases of Covid-19 in a city in the interior of Ceará, Brazil

Guimarães-Ximenes-Neto Francisco-Rosemiro, Carneiro-Flor Sandra-Maria, Carvalho-da-Silva Regina-Célia, Alves-Dorneles J, Ferreira-Serafim T, Dourado-Júnior Francisco-Wellington, Carneiro-Marques João-Paulo, Garcia-Lourenção L, Guimarães-Ximenes Maria-Roselange, Diogenes-dos-Santos F, Aguiar-Ribeiro M, Nazaré-Oliveira E, Aliny-Siqueira-Lima-Freitas C, Mont’Alverne-Napoleão-Albuquerque I

Language: English
References: 33
Page: 536-547
PDF size: 872.64 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Objective: to describe the sociodemographic, epidemiological and clinical charac-teristics of the initial cases of Covid-19 in the municipality of Sobral, Ceará, Brazil. Materials and methods: descriptive, temporal and quantitative epidemiological study, developed in the municipality of Sobral - Ceará, Brazil, with 110 confirmed cases of Covid-19. Descriptive and analytical analysis was performed, using the Chi-square test and Logistic Regression to verify the association between variables. The level of significance was set at 95% (p≤0.05). Results: it was observed that 60% of cases occurred in women, 74.5% were adults between 20 and 59 years old, 15.5% health workers and the lethality rate was 1.8%. In 58.2% of cases the main reporting unit was the hospital, 10% required hospitalization, and 64.5% were diagnosed with rapid tes. The main symptoms manifested were: cough (58.2%), fever (57.3%), sore throat (36.4%) and difficulty breathing (31.9%). There was an association between age and the presence of fever, cough and sore throat (p=0.05). Conclusion: the results suggest that older people are more susceptible to some symptoms when compared to younger people. Associated with global estimates, this work can provide subsidies for Covid-19 prevention and control actions in small and medium-sized Brazilian municipalities.


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