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Background: the impact tasks carried out by medical sciences students constituted an essential factor in the confrontation with COVID-19. Objective: to characterize the medical science students work in the confrontation with COVID-19 in Cienfuegos. Methods: observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study from February to September 2021. The universe consisted of 1815 Dentistry and Medicine students who were fighting against COVID-19. The whole universe was studied. Variables such as the municipality of origin, members of the Student Helpers Movement, impact task, place where they worked and multiple tasks were also analyzed. Descriptive statistical techniques were used. Results: the average age was 20.6 years and the female sex predominated (70%). The medical career was the most represented (96.0%). The Cienfuegos municipality had the highest student participation (49.4%). All students were incorporated into at least one impact task. 99.8% contributed to the active research in the community. The task with the greatest impact for first-year students was research (90%), while vaccination was in the remaining academic years. Conclusions: medical science students from Cienfuegos joined different impact tasks in the fight against COVID-19, which contribute to their comprehensive training and show the sense of duty that characterizes health personnel trained in the country.
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Background: in the wide context of the COVID-19 epidemic, secondary bacterial infections represent an important risk factor for the entity's adverse outcomes. Objective: to characterize patients admitted to the intensive care unit with a diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia and negative for COVID-19. Methods: descriptive study, carried out between March/2020 and March/2021, in a series of 338 patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit with a history of negative polymerase chain reaction to COVID-19, but with a diagnosis of acquired pneumonia in the community. Variables such as: age, sex, month of admission, requirement of artificial mechanical ventilation and condition at discharge were analyzed. Results: 60.3% of the patients were male, and the age group from 60 to 79 years old (50.3%) was the most representative. 31.7% required artificial mechanical ventilation, and 61.8% remained hospitalized for less than 48 hours. 61.6% were discharged alive, with an average stay of 6.31 +/- 10.62 days. There were 218 hospitalized for more than 10 days from the onset of symptoms and the completion of the COVID-19 diagnostic test. Conclusions: during the epidemiological situation caused by COVID-19, patients were admitted to intensive care units with a diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia not related to the SARS-Cov-2 virus. Timely treatment, in some cases artificial mechanical ventilation, even prolonged, contributed to the low lethality and discharge with a better quality of life.