Rapid Mortality Surveillance of COVID-19 Using Verbal Autopsy

Int J Public Health. 2021 Oct 5:66:1604249. doi: 10.3389/ijph.2021.1604249. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Amaro N Duarte-Neto¹, Maria de Fátima Marinho², Lucia P Barroso³, Carmen D Saldiva de André³, Luiz Fernando F da Silva¹, Marisa Dolhnikoff¹, Paulo Afonso de André¹, Catia M Minto⁴, Catia S de Moura¹, Thábata F Leite¹, Jair Theodoro Filho¹, Renata Aparecida de Almeida Monteiro¹, Philip Setel⁵, Martin W Bratschi⁵, Robert Mswia⁵, Paulo Hilário N Saldiva¹, Ana Luiza Bierrenbach²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
² Vital Strategies, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
³ Department of Statistics, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
⁴ State Secretary of Health of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
⁵ Vital Strategies, New York, NY, United States.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-like illness; InterVA CRMS; minimally invasive autopsy; mortality; surveillance.

MeSH terms

Autopsy
COVID-19* / mortality
Humans
Population Surveillance* / methods