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Multimed

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ESTRADA GARCIA., Ciro Braulio et al. Clinical epidemiological behavior of COVID-19. Granma, March-May 2020. Multimed [online]. 2020, vol.24, n.4, pp.870-886.  Epub 10-Jul-2020. ISSN 1028-4818.

The 21st century has been characterized from its beginnings by a health problem that has affected the world and Cuba has not been able to escape from this situation. In late 2019, a new coronavirus, called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), previously unidentified in humans, was identified as the cause of COVID-19, with the aim of characterizing the behavior of in the cases of COVID-19 in the Granma province, a descriptive, retrospective and cross-sectional study was carried out. It is presented to the 13 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Granma province, between March 11, 2020 and May 31, 2020, from the beginning of the pre-epidemic phase in Cuba until May 31, 2020 in in the Granma province, 1,785 real-time PCR samples had been processed, with 0.72% being positive. In the period described, the incidence rate of the province was 1.6 per 100,000 inhabitants. The male sex predominated slightly with 53.8%, the age group with the highest incidence was 20 to 49 years with six cases (45.1%), the majority corresponded to cases that referred contact with foreigners as the source of infection the 54.0%. Granma in the period analyzed is the province with the lowest risk of becoming ill with COVID-19 in Cuba. The series was dominated by: male sex, age group 20-49 years, source of infection contact with foreigners and as a symptom, dry cough.

Palabras clave : Coronavirus; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Virus.

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