Regional particularities of the diffusion and care of patients with covid-19 in the urban network of the city of São Luís, Maranhão, Brasil

ABSTRACT

The current article has the main goal of debate the dynamics in the spread of Covid-19 based on the mobility of patients in the urban area of São Luís, Maranhão State. The time frame include the first 100 days of the pandemic, in the urban area of São Luís. The acknowledged data consists of ICU (intensive care units) spaces and the viral evolution during this time frame. The main data sources are the “Datasus” and the Maranhão State of health department. The characteristic suggests that the concentration of medical-hospital equipments in few cities, specially in Imperatriz, is considered a big bottle neck related to the fight against the pandemic Sars-CoV-2, since it requires more people mobility from centers with less health service offers to the ones with more health service offers, resulting into bigger contamination areas. Thereby the disease dissemination works in an hierarchical way in the urban area of the city, information that is not always clear in the data presented by the epidemiologic report. © 2021, Universidade Federal de Goias. All rights reserved.