PROJETO SENTINELA COVID-19: ESTUDO DE VIABILIDADE DA DETECÇÃO VIRAL EM ASSINTOMÁTICOS UTILIZANDO O TESTE POINT OF CARE PARA DETECÇÃO DO ANTÍGENO DO SARS-COV-2 E RESULTADOS EM MEIO À EXPANSÃO DA VARIANTE DELTA NO BRASIL

A OMS estabelece como métricas para avaliação da transmissão comunitária da COVID-19 a ocorrência de casos novos, mortes, internações e positividade da testagem sentinela. A testagem sentinela por razões econômicas e logísticas não ocorreu no Brasil e sempre atuamos sob indicadores já ocorridos. Considerando a relevância da transmissão assintomática, sobretudo com a expansão da vacina, e a necessidade de aprimorar a vigilância sobre a circulação viral implementamos um projeto sentinela na cidade de Cubatão na região da Baixada Santista em São Paulo. Realizamos semanalmente, aos sábados, dois testes para cada 1000 habitantes em todas as regiões do município, incluindo as mais socialmente desafiadoras, respeitando as bases e divisões dos setores censitários do IBGE. Aplicamos o TCLE e coletamos um questionário em meio digital com dados demográficos, clínicos e epidemiológicos. Entre 31/07 e 25/09/21 foram realizados 2185 testes (Panbio-AbbottR). Foram identificados 6 casos positivos no período (0,3%). A mediana de idade dos testadas foi de 49 anos, sendo 51,8% do sexo feminino. Em média, ao longo do período de testagem, 51,1% da amostra avaliada havia tomado 2 doses de vacinas dentro do prazo e foi possível avaliar a evolução da cobertura vacinal no período. Na última data de inquérito no período (25/09/2021), 75,59% da amostra estava plenamente vacinada e quase a totalidade com uma dose ao menos. Os resultados de baixa positividade alinham-se com a redução na demanda por consultas em PA por COVID (menos 70%), por internações (menos 97%) e por vagas em UTI (menos 98%) comparando-se os meses entre março (pico) e agosto de 2021. Alinham-se ainda à redução de positividade do RT-PCR entre sintomáticos de 88% para o mesmo período (de 43,6 para 4,9%). Entre 30/08 e 08/09/21 100% das variantes isoladas no município são delta e nenhum dos pacientes teve evolução desfavorável com necessidade de internação. O uso da testagem sentinela mostrou-se uma ferramenta útil no processo da gestão dos leitos e decisões estratégicas da secretaria de saúde, teve excelente aceitação e performance sem nenhuma perda, foi sensível e esteve em linha com os dados compilados pela gestão. Seu uso deve ser realizado como ferramenta útil no monitoramento precoce e antes que desfechos clínicos mais severos estejam concretizados. Por fim, está evidente a performance da vacina como ferramenta essencial na proteção contra formas graves da COVID e na contenção da expansão da variante delta.

PRESS X GOVERNMENT: The populist rhetoric of the covid-19 pandemic on the social network Twitter

This paper begins with a discussion of the concept of populism in order to analyze how Jair Bolsonaro's criticisms of the press circulated on the social network Twitter at a time when Brazil had recorded the highest number of covidrelated deaths, in the first week of March 2021. This paper presupposes that the president's support network incorporated the populist binary rhetoric of "us" against a "corrupt elite" which is responsible for conspiring and amplifying the effects of the health crisis in the country. As a methodology, we opted for a mixed proposal based on content analysis and analysis of social networks. As a result, we found that the tweets from Bolsonaro supporters claim that the press is corrupt, and manipulates and harasses the president in its coverage of the pandemic. © 2021 Associacao Brasileira de Pesquisadores de Jornalismo. All rights reserved.

Analysis of Biosafety Actions in Supermarkets: The Customer View

This article aims to analyze the perception and importance of biosafety actions in supermarkets. Besides, we want to understand how such actions can be classified under the perception of customers. For this, we established seven variables for the evaluation of biosafety. This research has an exploratory character because it analyzes biosafety actions and their effects under the perception of quality and customer satisfaction in a pandemic scenario. The results suggest that customers rate the actions as extremely important, but the perception of quality in carrying them out is reasonable. Six of the seven biosecurity measures were classified as one-dimensional attributes, indicating that customer satisfaction is proportional to performance. Item/action 6, which deals with the use of facial masks, was the action that obtained the best evaluation in matters of perception and importance. The Kano Model indicated that item/action 5, which deals with demonstrating the concern for customers’ health, is the one that most satisfies them. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Perceptions about the actions of public schools during the pandemic

The objective of this work is to capture the perception of the professionals of Basic Education about the actions of their educational systems during Covid-19. Thus, through a quantitative analysis of the data collected by exploratory research, through responses to a questionnaire applied to 123 professionals, during the period from 01/04/2020 to 01/07/2020, we observed that, although the perception of professionals recognizes the effective participation of their educational systems so that there is no interruption of activities with students, a relevant percentage of teachers completely interrupted their activities and those who continued to work, performed activities autonomously, without direction and without coordinated actions. We have recorded that future studies may show more clearly the damage that the situation studied here will cause in this generation of students.

Hyperimmune globulin and monoclonal antibody for the treatment of sars cov-2 infection

The current pandemic of COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease-19), caused by the pathogen SARSCoV- 2, leading to thousands of deaths in 2020, has mobilized the scientific community, with the purpose of understanding the different aspects of the disease and proposing new treatment and prevention measures. Research carried out in several areas includes evaluating the possibility of using hyperimmune globulin and monoclonal antibodies against SARS CoV-2 as well as analyzing the viability and efficacy of monoclonal antibodies and hyperimmune globulin in combating Sars-CoV-2. A literature review was carried out with a defined search strategy using the keywords (i) "hyperimmune globulin", (ii) "monoclonal antibody", (iii)" covid-19" and (iv)" sars-cov-2", in the PubMed and ResearchGate databases, using the bibliographic references of the articles selected in these databases. Of the 187 citations obtained, 10 articles published between 2019 and 2020 were selected after reading the summary of each one and determining its compatibility with the objective of this study. Final considerations highlight the main challenges and the feasibility of using hyperimmune globulin and monoclonal antibodies for the treatment/prevention of SARS CoV-2 infection. © 2020 Brazilian Society of Parasitology. All rights reserved.