Table 2. Deaths from COVID-19 detected after investigation in selected municipalities according to confirmation criteria and period of occurrence.
Brazil, February-June 2020.
| Original cause of death | Deaths investigated | COVID-19 confirmed (total) | Confirmation criteria of COVID-19 cases | Other causes non-COVID-19 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Definitive | Probable | Possible | Another diagnosis not related to COVID-19 | Lack of information | |||||||||
| n | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| February-April | |||||||||||||
| SARS | 107 | 27 | 25.2 | 1 | 0.9 | 5 | 4.7 | 21 | 19.6 | 5 | 4.7 | 75 | 70.1 |
| Unspecified pneumonia | 345 | 82 | 23.8 | 10 | 2.9 | 16 | 4.6 | 56 | 16.2 | 8 | 2.3 | 255 | 73.9 |
| Respiratory failure | 9 | 3 | 33.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 11.1 | 2 | 22.2 | 1 | 11.1 | 5 | 55.6 |
| Sepsis | 137 | 8 | 5.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.7 | 7 | 5.1 | 4 | 2.9 | 125 | 91.2 |
| Ill-defined causes | 263 | 2 | 0.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.8 | 183 | 69.6 | 78 | 29.7 |
| GC-COVID-related | 861 | 122 | 14.2 | 11 | 1.3 | 23 | 2.7 | 88 | 10.2 | 201 | 23.3 | 538 | 62.5 |
| May-June | |||||||||||||
| SARS | 118 | 73 | 61.9 | 37 | 31.4 | 7 | 5.9 | 29 | 24.6 | 1 | 0.8 | 44 | 37.3 |
| Unspecified pneumonia | 186 | 90 | 48.4 | 39 | 21.0 | 10 | 5.4 | 41 | 22.0 | 1 | 0.5 | 95 | 51.1 |
| Respiratory failure | 8 | 6 | 75.0 | 2 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 4 | 50.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 25.0 | |
| Sepsis | 57 | 16 | 28.1 | 8 | 14.0 | 1 | 1.8 | 7 | 12.3 | 2 | 3.5 | 39 | 68.4 |
| Ill-defined causes | 135 | 12 | 8.9 | 2 | 1.5 | 1 | 0.7 | 9 | 6.7 | 90 | 66.7 | 33 | 24.4 |
| GC-COVID-related | 504 | 197 | 39.1 | 88 | 17.5 | 19 | 3.8 | 90 | 17.9 | 94 | 18.7 | 213 | 42.3 |
| Total February-June | |||||||||||||
| SARS | 225 | 100 | 44.4 | 38 | 16.9 | 12 | 5.3 | 50 | 22.2 | 6 | 2.7 | 119 | 52.9 |
| Unspecified pneumonia | 531 | 172 | 32.4 | 49 | 9.2 | 26 | 4.9 | 97 | 18.3 | 9 | 1.7 | 350 | 65.9 |
| Respiratory failure | 17 | 9 | 52.9 | 2 | 11.8 | 1 | 5.9 | 6 | 35.3 | 1 | 5.9 | 7 | 41.2 |
| Sepsis | 194 | 24 | 12.4 | 8 | 4.1 | 2 | 1.0 | 14 | 7.2 | 6 | 3.1 | 164 | 84.5 |
| Ill-defined causes | 398 | 14 | 3.5 | 2 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.3 | 11 | 2.8 | 273 | 68.6 | 111 | 27.9 |
| GC-COVID-related | 1,365 | 319 | 23.4 | 99 | 7.3 | 42 | 3.1 | 178 | 13.0 | 295 | 21.6 | 751 | 55.0 |