Pedro Gabriel Melo de Barros e Silva et al. Ana Amaral Ferreira Dutra Adriana Bertolami Manfredi Pedro Paulo Nogueres Sampaio … Celso Musa Correa Hemilo Borba Griz Daniel Setta Valter Furlan
Introduction
The first reports of infections by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) occurred in December of 2019 in Wuhan, China., This disease (named as coronavirus disease-2019, Covid-19) rapidly spread globally and, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the state of pandemic., Lockdown was a common recommendation for countries affected by the outbreak.
Despite all the attention put on Covid-19 by the health authorities, other diseases could also be impacted by this new circumstance. Rates of acute cardiovascular diseases changed in countries such as Italy and United States, with a reduction in hospital admissions.– Previous national data regarding acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is already well and largely described, but these studies did not include the Covid-19 period., Thus, despite the fact that Brazil was the second most affected country when it comes to number of Covid-19 cases,9 the impact in hospital admissions due to suspected or confirmed ACS is still not well defined in both private and public Brazilian healthcare systems.
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