COVID-19's intra-urban inequalities and social vulnerability in a medium-sized city.
Mário Círio NogueiraIsabel Cristina Gonçalves LeiteMaria Teresa Bustamante TeixeiraMarcel de Toledo VieiraFernando Antônio Basile ColugnatiPublished in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (2022)
The lower risk of confirmed cases in the most vulnerable UR probably reflected lower access to confirmatory tests, while the higher risk of hospitalizations and deaths must have been related to the greater severity of the epidemic in the city's poorest regions.