COVID-19 and Assisted Reproduction: A Point of View on the Brazilian Scenario - Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. 2020;42(6):305-309
The world is experiencing a pandemic with no recent similar events, caused by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Since December 31, 2019, when the World Health Organization (WHO) was informed about the first cases of pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, China, the disease (COVID-19) spread rapidly through the whole planet. According to the WHO, on May 24, 2020, the world had already confirmed 5,204,508 COVID-19 cases, with a total of 337,687 deaths. In Brazil, on that date, the Ministry of Health had already registered more 363,211 confirmed cases and 22,666 deaths.
Indeed, the WHO warns of the need for caution in interpreting available data, since the sources of information are diverse, as well as the inclusion criteria and other variables may diverge, ultimately resulting in eventual underestimations of the numbers of cases and deaths in each country. However, based on observations from previous epidemics caused by other respiratory viruses, and using specific indicators to measure the transmissibility of the new coronavirus and the clinical severity of COVID-19, preliminary data released in China appear to be sufficient to place the current pandemic on the scale of major epidemics recorded in history, comparable only to the 1918 influenza pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu pandemic.
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The world is experiencing a pandemic with no recent similar events, caused by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Since December 31, 2019, when the World Health Organization (WHO) was informed about the first cases of pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, China, the disease (COVID-19) spread rapidly through the whole planet. According to the WHO, on May 24, 2020, the world had already confirmed 5,204,508 COVID-19 cases, with a total of 337,687 deaths. In Brazil, on that date, the Ministry of Health had already registered more 363,211 confirmed cases and 22,666 deaths.
Indeed, the WHO warns of the need for caution in interpreting available data, since the sources of information are diverse, as well as the inclusion criteria and other variables may diverge, ultimately resulting in eventual underestimations of the numbers of cases and deaths in each country. However, based on observations from previous epidemics caused by other respiratory viruses, and using specific indicators to measure the transmissibility of the new coronavirus and the clinical severity of COVID-19, preliminary data released in China appear to be sufficient to place the current pandemic on the scale of major epidemics recorded in history, comparable only to the 1918 influenza pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu pandemic.
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