IMPACT OF ELECTIONS ON THE REEMERGENCE OF COVID-19 IN BRAZIL
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The importance of elections in a democratic society is indisputable, as is the exercise of the right to vote and to be voted. However, the COVID-19 pandemic, an unexpected event, but one that took place well in advance of the municipal elections, is reason enough to question the fulfillment of this year’s elections. The current study aimed to demonstrate, according to epidemiology and biosafety, that, even under TSE rules for the holding of elections, there is effectively no security, in addition to the risk of multiplying new cases of COVID-19 and prolonging the pandemic in the country. Considering four fields of analysis, social/interpersonal distancing, the use of masks and personal protective equipment, the washing of hands and the use of alcohol as well as the quantity of cases and deaths, the difficulty and impossibility of avoiding contagion was demonstrated once the disease is transmitted through the upper airways. In addition, there was a reversal of the declining trend of the epidemiological curve with an increase in the number of cases and deaths in five epidemiological weeks during the period associated with the elections. The results allow the conclusion that the elections, although fundamental, contributed at least in part to the re-emergence of the disease in the country.
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