COVID19 – ABC CARDIOL

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Editorial

COVID-19: An Insult to Injury on Equity

SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, created a pandemic that not only overwhelmed the world in December 2019, but also challenged humanity in every way.

While a significant portion of the global population remained in a standstill, waiting for an end and adapting to limits of all sorts, including working from home, a new workforce category emerged: the “frontline” workers. Doctors, nurses, and all allied professions employed by the healthcare system were joined by a long line of diverse service providers. The latter faced different forms of discrimination from their surroundings, fearing the risk of infection based on high rates of medical misinformation; for the former group, Pandora’s box of bias was yet to be opened, in particular for women.

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COVID-19: A New Challenge in Pregnancy and Heart Disease

Walkiria Samuel Avila et al. Regina Coeli de Carvalho

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. Although SARS-CoV-2 isolation, gene sequencing, and structural analysis have been completed,therapies for COVID-19.

The first epidemiological data have pointed to a worse outcomes and higher mortality of COVID-19 in patients with chronic diseases, such as heart disease and arterial hypertension. Subsequently, the Brazilian Health Ministry included in the high-risk group pregnant, puerperal and post-abortion women.

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COVID-19: An Insult to Injury on Equity

COVID-19: A New Challenge in Pregnancy and Heart Disease

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