The COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: Some Aspects and Tools
Open Access
- 23 June 2021
- journal article
- review article
- Published by MDPI AG in Epidemiologia
- Vol. 2 (3), 243-255
- https://doi.org/10.3390/epidemiologia2030018
Abstract
The article presents some aspects related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil including public health, challenges facing healthcare workers and adverse impacts on the country’s economy. Its main contribution is the availability of two web applications for online monitoring of the evolution of the pandemic in Brazil and South America. The applications provide the possibility to download data in different formats, view interactive maps and graphs of the cumulative confirmed cases, deaths and lethality rates, in addition to presenting plots of moving averages for states and municipalities. The predictions about new cases and new deaths caused by COVID-19, in states and regions of Brazil, are also reported using GAMLSS models. The forecasts can be easily used by public managers for effective decision-making.Keywords
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