Marcos Emanoel Pereira

TL;DR: A positive association between vitamin D deficiency and the severity of the disease was observed and was identified that severe cases of COVID-19 present 64% (or 1.64; 95% CI = 1.30–2.09) moreitamin D deficiency compared with mild cases.

TL;DR: The relationship between both poverty and food insecurity (FI) and the COVID-19 pandemic are discussed, as well as possible strategies and actions for increasing social protection in the fight against these conditions in the current epidemiological context, especially for low-income countries.

TL;DR: The authors found that the largest differences were not in those contents most frequently emphasized in cross-cultural psychology (e.g., values, social axioms, cultural tightness), but instead in contents involving religion, regularity-norm behaviors, family roles and living arrangements, and ethnonationalism.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the risks to hunger and food security in Brazil have been present since 2016 and are now being exacerbated due to the emergence of the COVID-19 epidemic.

TL;DR: The analysis and interpretation of COVID-19 containment measures, such as social distancing, should consider the profile of local vulnerability of each territory for the correct dimensioning of pandemic mitigation strategies from the perspective of developing social actions enabling greater adherence of the most impoverished populations.