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Volume 28, Number 11—November 2022
Dispatch

Deaths Related to Chagas Disease and COVID-19 Co-Infection, Brazil, March–December 2020

Francisco R. Martins-MeloComments to Author , Marcia C. Castro, Antonio Luiz P. Ribeiro, Jorg Heukelbach, and Guilherme L. Werneck
Author affiliations: Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil (F.R. Martins-Melo); Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (M.C. Castro); Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (A.L.P. Ribeiro); Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza (J. Heukelbach); Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (G.L. Werneck); State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (G.L. Werneck)

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Figure 1

Number of deaths related to Chagas disease and COVID-19 co-infection, by month (A) and epidemiologic week (B) of death, Brazil, March–December 2020. Data shown are from the epidemiologic week of the first reported death related to Chagas disease and COVID-19 co-infection (March 26, 2020) to December 31, 2020 (epidemiologic weeks from 13 [March 22–28, 2020] to 53 [December 27, 2020–January 2, 2021; data available until December 31, 2020], according to the 2020 epidemiologic calendar (https://portalsinan.saude.gov.br/calendario-epidemiologico-2020). Red bars indicate the number of deaths related to Chagas and COVID-19 co-infection.

Figure 1. Number of deaths related to Chagas disease and COVID-19 co-infection, by month (A) and epidemiologic week (B) of death, Brazil, March–December 2020. Data shown are from the epidemiologic week of the first reported death related to Chagas disease and COVID-19 co-infection (March 26, 2020) to December 31, 2020 (epidemiologic weeks from 13 [March 22–28, 2020] to 53 [December 27, 2020–January 2, 2021; data available until December 31, 2020], according to the 2020 epidemiologic calendar (https://portalsinan.saude.gov.br/calendario-epidemiologico-2020). Red bars indicate the number of deaths related to Chagas and COVID-19 co-infection.

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