id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-347490-9eyq4j14 Cimerman, Sergio Deep Impact of COVID-19 in the HealthCare of Latin America: the case of Brazil 2020-04-23 .txt text/plain 1080 65 62 1 From February 25, 2020, when the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the etiological agent of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), was firstly confirmed in Brazil, proceeding as an imported case from Italy, up to April 17, 2020, more than 81,000 cases have been reported in the Latin America and Caribbean region. 1, 4 Sadly, also the last years' vaccine coverages in multiple countries of Latin America, but also some areas of individual nations, have significantly decrease, allowing the imminent menace of imported cases and spreading with local transmission of this once not reported old diseases, such as is especially the case of measles, that in fact, due to forced migration from Venezuela arrived especially to Roraima and Amazonas to lead to thousands of cases in the region. Currently, epidemiological data from Brazil clearly show that there is an unexpected increase in the number of hospitalizations due to severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) (Figure 1 ), especially two weeks after the first case diagnosed in São Paulo, coinciding with the disease incubation period. ./cache/cord-347490-9eyq4j14.txt ./txt/cord-347490-9eyq4j14.txt