Two hundred days of COVID-19 in São Paulo State, Brazil

• DOI: 10.1017/s0950268820002927
• Publication Date: 2020-12-02T04:39:29Z
• Authors: Gabriel Berg de A...; Micheli Pronunciate; Rejane Maria Tomm...; Edmur Azevedo Pug...; Raul Borges Guima...; Thomas Nogueira V...; Renato Mendes Cou...; Rafael de Castro ...; Claudia Pio Ferreira; Carlos Magno Cast...
• Keywords: 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Abstract Two hundred days after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Brazil, epidemic has rapidly spread metropolitan areas and advanced throughout countryside. We followed temporal pattern at São Paulo State, most populous country, to have a COVID-19, one with significant number cases until now. analysed new per day each regional health department calculated effective reproduction ( R t ) over time. Social distance measures, along improvement testing isolating positive cases, general population mask-wearing standard security protocols for essential non-essential activities, were adopted impacted on slowing down velocity but insufficient stop transmission.