Publications by authors named "Wilhelm Alexander Cardoso Steinmetz"
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- - The study in Manaus revealed that actual COVID-19 cases in early 2022 were as much as 8 times higher than what was officially reported.
- - Vaccination efforts helped lower mortality rates but didn't reach the necessary immunity levels to prevent severe cases, particularly with the emergence of new Omicron variants.
- - To effectively reduce severe COVID-19 cases, vaccination rates need to exceed 90-95% across all age groups, along with regular booster shots every four months.
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- Some people used wrong ideas about COVID-19 in Brazil to make bad decisions during the pandemic.
- This led to schools reopening too soon and people getting together again, which caused more COVID-19 cases.
- In Manaus, the city in the Amazon, there was a big second wave of COVID-19 in 2021 because the pandemic didn’t actually end in 2020.
The city of Manaus (the capital of Brazil's state of Amazonas) has become a key location for understanding the dynamics of the global pandemic of COVID-19. Different groups of scientists have foreseen different scenarios, such as the second wave or that Manaus could escape such a wave by having reached herd immunity. Here we test five hypotheses that explain the second wave of COVID-19 in Manaus: 1) The greater transmissibility of the Amazonian (gamma or P.
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