Incidência, mortalidade e letalidade por Covid-19 na população idosa da cidade de Trindade-GO e o impacto da campanha de vacinação.

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The covid-19 pandemic has dramatically impacted the world and caused a real crisis of permanent threat to the entire world population, especially to the vulnerable elderly population, since the pathogen increases the risk of death for those aged 60 years and over. OBJECTIVE: to describe the incidence and mortality by COVID-19 in the elderly population of the city of Trindade and the impact of the vaccination campaign. METHODOLOGY: this is an observational and analytical study, including incidence, deaths and mortality from COVID-19 among elderly people in this city from 2020 to August 2021 and the progress of the vaccination campaign among this population. The information was obtained through epidemiological bulletins from the Department of Health of the State of Goiás, Department of Informatics of the Unified Health System (DATASUS), and System of Health Indicators and Monitoring of Elderly Policies (SISAP), all in the public domain. Data were entered into a matrix in Microsoft Excel 2019, the variables analyzed descriptively and bivariately using Spearman's correlation. RESULTS: The cumulative incidence of COVID-19 in the elderly population in 2020 was 26.99% against 64.25% in 2021; the accumulated mortality in 2020 was 1.15% against 2.25% in 2021 and the accumulated lethality in 2020 was 25.1% against 0.5% in 2021.