Impacto da Covid-19 sobre a tendência de mortalidade materna em uma capital da Amazônia Legal

Abstract

Historically, humanity is afflicted by epidemics and pandemics. The most recent pandemic still in progress is Covid-19, which had its first case recorded in December 2019 in the city of Whuan, China, having as etiologic agent a virus of the coronavirus family: SARS-CoV-2, which when infecting humans, causes a disease called Covid-19. Any person at any age can be infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus; however, some groups are considered to be at risk, with a higher probability of developing complications from the disease, among them pregnant women, because pregnancy is a physiological event that involves dynamic changes from the physical, social, and emotional point of view. Physiologically, the changes result mainly from hormonal and mechanical factors. There are also immunological changes, where the sum of the factors can result in increased susceptibility to infectious diseases, such as infection with the H1N1 virus and SARS-CoV-2.