Mountain – ES: epidemiological profile of dengue in times of COVID-19 pandemic

• Autor(a) principal: de Matos Mulinari, Artur
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Miranda dos Santos Cecato, Anny Cristinny, Souza Cangussú , Gustavo, Ziviani Padovan, Júlia, Pissinati Constancio , Laisa, Silva Pereira, Taísa Sabrina, de Abreu Quintela Castro, Fernanda Cristina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: HU Revista (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/hurevista/article/view/34733
• topic: Dengue; Fatores de Confusão Epidemiológicos; Epidemiologia Descritiva; Doenças Endêmicas; Dengue; Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic; Epidemiology, Descriptive; Endemic Diseases

Introduction: Dengue is an endemic disease throughout the Brazilian territory that configures a resident pathological process and establishes an endemic range. To assess this disease, a sustained information system such as epidemiology is necessary, in order to provide organization, direct workforce, education and supporting action in the creation of public health policies. Considering the current scenario of the COVID-19 pandemic, in synergy with dengue, both the care need for health policies, as well as the prevention and treatment aimed at the endemic, lost prominence. Objective: the study aimed To descriptively analyze, based on secondary data, the behavior of dengue in the city of Montanha/ES in the midst of the pandemic. Material and Method: This is a cross-sectional study, carried out with information provided by the Municipal Health Department and the Espírito Santo State Health Department (SESA). Results: Dengue did not assume a similar behavior in its entirety in 2020, especially when analyzed from the Epidemiological Week (SE) 37, when the municipality of Montanha had higher numbers of dengue notifications in 2019, revealing its peak in SE 19 and 20, with a total of 35 cases each. Thereafter, there was a further decrease, congruent with the seasonality of the influenza virus. Now, with regard to the year 2020, there is a communion of cases notified prior to SE 11, that is, the notifications presented a pattern similar to the year 2019 and that usually occurs every year. Conclusion: The clinical and laboratory similarity between COVID-19 and dengue may have contributed to the imprecision in the diagnosis of the endemic disease. In addition, emergency reallocation of resources to control the progression of the pandemic, such as labor, affected the regular investment in routine preventive and dengue control programs in the municipality.