COVID-19 Mortality in Public Hospitals in a Brazilian State: An Analysis of the Three Waves of the Pandemic.
Larissa Soares Dell'AntonioFranciele Marabotti Costa LeiteCristiano Soares da Silva Dell'AntonioCamila Brandão de SouzaJuliana Rodrigues Tovar GarbinAna Paula Brioschi Dos SantosNésio Fernandes de Medeiros JuniorLuis Carlos Lopes-JuniorPublished in: International journal of environmental research and public health (2022)
The time interval between diagnosis and death can be impacted by several factors, such as: plasticity of the health system, improved clinical management of patients, and the start of vaccination at the end of January 2021, which covered the age group with the higher incidence of deaths. The deaths occurring in public hospitals were associated with socio-clinical characteristics.