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| Title |
Underreporting of Death by COVID-19 in Brazil's Second Most Populous State
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Public Health, December 2020
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpubh.2020.578645 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Thiago Henrique Evangelista Alves, Tafarel Andrade de Souza, Samyla de Almeida Silva, Nayani Alves Ramos, Stefan Vilges de Oliveira |
| Abstract |
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 largest population of the country is concentrated, reveals government unpreparedness, as there is a low capacity of testing in the population, which prevents the real understanding of the general panorama of SARS-CoV-2 dissemination. The goals of this research are to analyze the causes of deaths in different Brazilian government databases (Civil Registry Transparency Portal and InfoGripe) and to assess whether there are sub-records showing an unexpected increase in the frequency of deaths from causes clinically similar to COVID-19. A descriptive and quantitative analysis of the number of deaths by COVID-19 and similar causes was performed in different databases. Our results demonstrate that different official sources had a discrepancy of 109.45% between these data referring to the same period. There was also a 758.57% increase in SARI deaths in 2020, when compared to the average of previous years. Finally, it was shown that there was an increase in the rate of pneumonia and respiratory insufficiency (RI) by 6.34 and 6.25%, respectively. In conclusion, there is an underreporting of COVID-19 deaths in MG due to the unexplained excess of deaths caused by SARI, respiratory insufficiency, and pneumonia compared to previous years. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 2 | 10% |
| France | 2 | 10% |
| El Salvador | 1 | 5% |
| Ireland | 1 | 5% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |
| Philippines | 1 | 5% |
| Chile | 1 | 5% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 8 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 18 | 90% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 5% |
| Scientists | 1 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 95 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 95 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 12 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 9% |
| Other | 8 | 8% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 8% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 21 | 22% |
| Unknown | 31 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 20 | 21% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 8% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 6% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 4 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 20 | 21% |
| Unknown | 34 | 36% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 May 2022.
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#2,410,429
of 25,416,581 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Public Health
#1,129
of 14,113 outputs
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#63,750
of 518,173 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Public Health
#59
of 393 outputs
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