Perfil clínico-epidemiológico de la COVID-19 en el municipio Cumanayagua. Cienfuegos, 2020.

Background: COVID-19 is the disease that affects the entire world and is a health emergency. Knowing the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the patients is important to fight it. Objective: to describe the epidemiological profile of COVID-19 in Cumanayagua. Methods: a descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional study was carried out that included the 14 positive cases diagnosed in 2020. With the data collected, a database was created, which was processed using the statistical package SPSS-PC version 25.0. The cases were collected according to epidemiological classification, age, sex, presence or absence of symptoms, comorbidity, source of infection, symptoms and places of residence from where the patients came. Results: the months of November and December were the ones with the highest reported cases, the native and imported cases behaved in the same way, those over 15 years of age predominated and there were no differences according to sex. Asymptomatic cases predominated. High blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, and obesity were the most frequent comorbidities. The symptoms that presented were fever and headache in greater numbers. The largest number of cases came from the places of residence, Vila and Las Brisas. Conclusions: Although in the year analyzed there were not many patients, it is important that the population fulfill with health and social distancing measures to avoid contagion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]