Indigenous community strength: reflections with the Xakriaba in Brazil in Covid-19 times

The article presents the first year of the pandemic in the Brazilian scenario in dialogue and action with indigenous peoples. The constant deconstruction of public policies and repeated aggressions against minorities in the country are aggravated by the displacements caused by Covid19. In view of this difficult context, we present a reflection on our experience with the Xakriaba indigenous people. We aim to contribute to the understanding of the processes to which we are all submitted in order to seek alliances capable of offering us alternatives and directions to face such a situation.

Persistence of symptoms in patients after coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in a third level hospital of Puebla, Mexico

BACKGROUND: In the epidemic phase of the coronavirus in Mexico a phenomenon called persistent symptoms has been described, which occur in all patients who have developed the disease, but despite its improvement in time, they present a series of diverse symptoms that do not allow them to continue their daily life normally during the resolution phase of the disease. OBJECTIVE: To determine the persistence of post-COVID-19 symptoms in a population cared at a third level hospital of Puebla. MATERIAL AND METHOD: An observational and descriptive study of the population attended in the Pneumology outpatient clinic at Hospital Ángeles Puebla. Post-COVID 19 patients were asked a symptom questionnaire within 30-60 days after their symptoms or resolution of the symptoms under the following variables: Age, sex, BMI, comorbidities, tobacco index, symptoms in acute COVID-19 infection, established treatment, days of resolution of symptoms, presence of symptoms after resolution of the disease RESULTS: Fifty patients were included (30% women and 70% men), 84% presented persistent symptoms after the resolution of the disease, of which fatigue, headache, chest tightness and dyspnea were the main ones. CONCLUSIONS: This work demonstrates in a population the importance of symptoms after COVID-19 infection, which are of clinical relevance for the total resolution of the disease and aimed at improving the quality of life of recovered patients. © 2020 Comunicaciones Cientificas Mexicanas S.A. de C.V.. All rights reserved.