Gustavo Silveira Graudenz, Cristiane Degobbi, Paulo Hilario Saldiva
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Abstract
By the end of July 2020, more than 15 million confirmed cases of and more than half a million deaths from coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), had been recorded. Of these, more than 2.5 million cases and 85,000 deaths were recorded in Brazil. As it is difficult to sustain measures of social isolation, more focused and effective preventive measures against viral transmission are urgently needed to prevent the spread of the disease. Until [...]
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CLINICS is an electronic journal that publishes peer-reviewed articles in continuous flow, of interest to clinicians and researchers in the medical sciences. CLINICS complies with the policies of funding agencies which request or require deposition of the published articles that they fund into publicly available databases. CLINICS supports the position of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) on trial registration.