Hospitalizations for respiratory syndrome increase 606% compared to 2019 | Coronavirus

SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, is a respiratory disease that requires hospitalization and is caused by a virus, be it the new coronavirus, influenza, or another.

The data is contained in the Epidemiological Bulletin 15, which brings data until 12 noon on Friday. Among the more than one hundred thousand hospitalizations, 27,086 have already been diagnosed as Covid-19. Another 37,000 have not been specified and 38,000 are under investigation.

The bulletin also indicates that the trend of increasing the percentage of blacks (blacks or browns) between hospitalized patients and those killed by Covid-19 continued.

In the first newsletter that reported race / color data, on April 10, whites accounted for 73.9% of hospitalizations. In the most recent, this percentage fell to 54.8%. The variation was inverse between browns (18.9% to 36.3%) and blacks (4.2% to 6.7%).

Between deaths, the variation was also maintained. On April 10, whites accounted for 64.5% of the dead, a percentage that fell to 46.5% this Friday. The variation was inverse between browns (28.5% to 43.9%) and blacks (4.3% to 7.4%).