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Revista de Salud Pública
Print version ISSN 0124-0064
Abstract
PRIETO-SILVA, Rosibel; SARMIENTO-HERNANDEZ, Carlos A. and PRIETO-SILVA, Fabián. Morbidity and mortality due to COVID-19 in latin america: study of three countries - february to july 2020. Rev. salud pública [online]. 2020, vol.22, n.2, pp.198-204. Epub Sep 26, 2020. ISSN 0124-0064. https://doi.org/10.15446/rsap.v22n2.89682.
On March 11, 2020 the WHO declared the state of pandemic by COVID-19. As of July 29, 2020, 17 106 007 cases and 668 910 deaths have been reported globally. The region of the Americas has reported 9 152 173 cases (53%) and 351 121 deaths (52,2%), so the aggregate analysis of the data in countries in this region is of interest. Argentina, Chile and Colombia, due to their demographic and economic characteristics, are countries that can be studied.
Objetive
Analyze variables related to health systems and epidemiological data of SARS-CoV-2 virus disease in Argentina, Chile and Colombia.
Methods
A descriptive study of variables reported by the official organisms of each state was used.
Results
There is an important difference in active cases and mortality among the three countries; the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires has the highest number of active cases as of July 2020. Colombia has the highest numbers of deaths confirmed by COVID-19 in the months of February to July 2020. We suggest the unification of an information system for Latin America that allows a comprehensive monitoring of variables, improves the qua-lity of data and unifies the technical language.
Keywords : COVID-19 pandemic; SARS-CoV-2 infection; Latin America; cluster analysis (source: MeSH, NLM).
