The drop in temperatures in Brazil recorded last week coincided with a rise in new cases of Covid-19 in the country. The situation sparked the alert of doctors and specialists to the challenges of controlling the disease amid the beginning of the season of respiratory problems that usually increase between autumn and winter.
Despite remaining at reduced levels compared to the peaks of the pandemic, the numbers of Covid-19 in the country still point to a high degree of circulation of the coronavirus, and outbreaks in countries such as North Korea and China warn of the risks of new variants.
At the same time, with vaccine coverage lower than in previous years, flu and other respiratory illnesses are worrying medical authorities in the face of pressure on health services caused not only by the pandemic, but also by unexpected outbreaks of measles and the mysterious childhood hepatitis. sharp.
In this episode of E Tem Mais, Evandro Cini presents an overview of the fight against Covid-19 and these other diseases in the current scenario. To describe the care needed to deal with an environment where different viruses are a matter of attention, infectious disease specialist Rosana Richtmann, from Instituto Emílio Ribas, and virologist Fernando Spilki, from Feevale University, participate in this episode.
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