COVID-19: uma análise da mortalidade em Minas Gerais

Abstract

COVID-19 is a parasitic infectious disease caused by coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Considered as a disease with a high rate of transmissibility, it tends to spread more easily in the poorest populations and with greater difficulty in following the recommendations of hygiene and social distancing. This study aimed to analyze the mortality rates by COVID-19 in the municipalities of Minas Gerais, and trace possible correlations with the MHDI of education and income. Data from the Brazilian Ministry of Health, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and Minas Gerais State Health Secretariat (SES/MG) were used. They are related to confirmed cases of deaths from COVID-19 in the municipalities of Minas Gerais from March 2020 to March 2021. In the analyzed interval, 89,054 cases of COVID-19 were reported in Minas Gerais. Of those, 31.42% died. The mean age of the cases that evolved to death was 69.85 (±7.07) years, since the most affected age groups were individuals between 60 and 69 years (22.32%), 70 to 79 years (26.38%) and 80 to 89 years (22.60%). Among the individuals who had death as evolution of the disease, 54.82% were male, 45.13% female and 0.05% had their genders not informed. Among the data of those individuals, it is also verified that most confirmed cases that evolved to death had comorbidities, about 70.74%, and were mostly men. In the municipalities where the disease progressed to death, it was observed that the MHDI Education and Income presented an average development index. The results show the mortality rate for COVID-19 was not influenced by the MHDI, because even in more developed cities, with health structures, and population with the possibility of better access to resources, the number of deaths was high.