COVID-19 in the city of Bagé, Brazil: radiography of the evolution of the pandemic

• Autor(a) principal: Bihain, Anderson Luís Jeske
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Goergen, Guilherme, Blass, Leandro, Silva, Everson Jonatha Gomes da, Grala, Ketleen
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Ibero-Americanos de Direito Sanitário (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.cadernos.prodisa.fiocruz.br/index.php/cadernos/article/view/837
• topic: COVID-19; Pandemic; Outcome Assessment; Epidemiology; COVID-19; Pandemia; Evaluación de Resultado en la Atención de Salud; Epidemiología; COVID-19; Pandemia; Monitoramento de Resultados; Epidemiologia

Objective: to characterize the dynamics of COVID-19in the municipality of Bagé, construct a detailed x-ray of the spread of the virus and analyze the impacts of the containment measures imposed by the state and municipal governments on contamination. Simultaneously, a series of social events and the behavior of the population against these measures are analyzed, to relate their impacts on the spread of the virus. Methods: the research was characterized quali-quantitatively, with an analysis period between March 2020 and April 2021. Data from daily records of new cases, active, cured and suspected cases, numbers of deaths, clinical beds and vacancies in ICU, together with social isolation data. Results: given the analyzed data, there was evidence that the measures adopted by public management had an impact on the spread of the virus, in addition, four phases of population behavior were observed during the pandemic in the municipality: fear, uncertainty, relaxation and lack of control. Conclusions: the measures of flexibility  adopted by the government generated sharp peaks in contamination and  after these peaks, it was not possible to significantly reduce the number of active cases of the disease in general, indicating the decisions of the government  had generated uncertainly in part of the population and made it impossible to effectively control the spread of the virus in the period analyzed.