Objective: To describe the space-time evolution of cases and deaths due to COVID-19 in the Rio de Janeiro municipality during the first year of the pandemic. Methods: We carried out an ecological study whose units of analysis were the neighborhoods of the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. We calculated Incidence and mortality rates, excess risk, global Moran index (Moran's I), Local indicator of spatial associati...
This study analyzed the intercity flow of SRAG admissions by COVID-19 in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro. We identified 12,676 inter-municipal hospitalizations for COVID-19 involving the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. Among these admissions, 11,288 (89.0%) were residents of the RM, 87% were residents of other cities in the RM and hospitalized in the MRJ and 13% residents of the MRJ and hospitalized i...
Given the growing number of deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, this study presents an initial and exploratory descriptive analysis of the excess mortality observed from March to May 2020 in capitals and other municipalities. The data source was the death registers from the Civil Registry Offices. The data were disaggregated by gender and capitals and other municipalities of the 26 federative units a...