News on Brazilian Nursing in the COVID-19 pandemic

Freire, Neyson Pinheiro; Castro, Daniel Amaral de; Fagundes, Maria Clara Marques; Ximenes Neto, Francisco Rosemiro Guimarães; Cunha, Isabel Cristina Kowal Olm; Silva, Manoel Carlos Neri da

Neyson Pinheiro Freire Corresponding author Neyson Pinheiro Freire, E-mail: neysonfreire@gmail.com

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo-SP, Brazil.

Conselho Federal de Enfermagem, Brasília, DF, Brazil.

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9038-9974

Daniel Amaral de Castro

Conselho Federal de Enfermagem, Brasília, DF, Brazil.

Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil.

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3733-4613

Maria Clara Marques Fagundes

Conselho Federal de Enfermagem, Brasília, DF, Brazil.

Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ, Brazil.

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4050-5655

Francisco Rosemiro Guimarães Ximenes Neto

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo-SP, Brazil.

Conselho Federal de Enfermagem, Brasília, DF, Brazil.

Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú, Sobral, CE, Brazil.

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7905-9990

Isabel Cristina Kowal Olm Cunha

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo-SP, Brazil.

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6374-5665

Manoel Carlos Neri da Silva

Conselho Federal de Enfermagem, Brasília, DF, Brazil.

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3923-7473

Corresponding author Neyson Pinheiro Freire, E-mail: neysonfreire@gmail.com

Conflicts of interest: none to declare.

Collaborations

Freire NP, Castro DA, Fagundes MCM, Ximenes Neto FRG, Cunha ICKO and Silva MCN participated in the conception, analysis and interpretation of data, writing and revision of the intellectual content until the final version of the manuscript.

NR	NETWORK	DATE	HEADLINE/SUBJECT	MEDIUM
1	EBC	21/03	Health professionals run campaign on the internet asking people to stay at home	News Agency - Internet
2	Folha de São Paulo	25/03	Congress, governors, judiciary, businessmen and even allies react to Bolsonaro's speech	Online newspaper
3	Rádio Web	27/03	Entities ignore Bolsonaro and follow WHO recommendations	News Agency - Radio
4	CNN	29/03	Care taken by professionals and creation of the Observatory	TV
5	Rádio Web	01/04	Observatory will monitor nurses’ health after three deaths	News Agency - Radio
6	G1	13/04	MEC allows anticipation of graduation in health areas and excludes acting ‘exclusively’ in the fight against the pandemic	Digital newspaper
7	EBC	29/04	Council denounces the use of raincoats as aprons by health professionals	News Agency - Internet
8	EBC	30/04	Chamber approves priority for health professionals and funeral directors in tests for COVID-19	News Agency - Internet
9	O Globo	01/05	Nurses pay homage to colleagues killed by COVID-19, there are already 65 deaths	Online newspaper
10	UOL	02/05	Council identifies and says it will prosecute nurses’ aggressors	Digital newspaper
11	Rede Globo Jornal Hoje	05/05	PGR calls for investigation of aggression against nurses in protest on Labor Day	TV
12	Rede Globo Jornal Nacional	05/05	MP calls for police investigation into attacks on nurses and journalists in demonstrations	TV
13	IstoÉ	06/05	Entrepreneur says he criticized nurses’ protest for believing the act was false	Online magazine
14	EBC	07/05	Nursing Council receives more than 6 thousand complaints about lack of protective equipment	News Agency - Internet
15	Exame	08/05	Banksy's work shows nurses as real life heroines	Online magazine
16	EBC	12/05	COFEN advocates better working conditions for nurses	News Agency - Internet
17	Telesur	12/05	Nurses celebrate their day fighting coronavirus	Multimedia – Internet
18	Folha de São Paulo	12/05	Nursing pioneers are honored by Turma da Mônica	Online newspaper
19	RadioWeb	12/05	International Nursing Day: 200 years of courage and care	News Agency – Radio
20	Folha de São Paulo	13/05	Under attack and record of deaths, nursing receives tribute from Pope Francis	Online newspaper
21	France 24	13/05	“World's highest death rate”: Brazil's nurses protest as fatalities mount.	TV
22	Estadão	13/05	Health professionals issue a letter calling for an end to the circulation of fake coronavirus news	Online newspaper
23	Estadão	15/05	Nursing: the essential is no longer invisible to the eyes	Online newspaper
24	Folha de São Paulo	17/05	Nurses want to take advantage of visibility in the pandemic to approve a salary floor	Online newspaper

NR	NETWORK	DATE	HEADLINE/SUBJECT	MEDIUM
1	Marie Claire	19/03	How are the nurses on the front line against the coronavirus	Online magazine
2	Rede Globo Fantástico	22/03	Dráuzio Varella shows health professionals who are fighting the coronavirus	TV
3	Folha de São Paulo	23/03	In addition to long hours, nurses face the lack of protocol and protective equipment	Online newspaper
4	CNN	26/03	Nursing Council receives 1271 complaints of lack of protective equipment	TV - Internet
5	Estadão	29/03	With the lack of protective and medical items, the country may face workforce collapse	Online newspaper
6	Rede Globo Fantástico	29/03	Health professionals report a lack of protective equipment; complaints exceed 4 thousand	TV
7	Rede Record omingo Espetacular	29/03	Domingo Espetacular visits operating field hospitals	TV
8	SBT Conexão Repórter	30/03	Conexão Repórter shows the real situation of hospitals in the fight against coronavirus	TV
9	Rede Record Hoje em Dia	31/03	Health professionals report the lack of PPE	TV
10	El País	02/04	Without protective equipment, health professionals report concern after the deaths of two nurses in São Paulo	Digital newspaper
11	BandNews	03/04	The hospital network may feel the effects of the lack of professionals	Radio
12	Rede Record Domingo Espetacular	05/04	Doctors and nurses show the routine on the front line in the fight against coronavirus	TV
13	Globo Jornal Hoje	06/04	Complaints of lack of PPE among health professionals increase by 14% in AMB	TV
14	CNN	08/04	Situation of health workers in Brazil	TV
15	BBC	09/04	‘I sleep on the balcony so as not to infect my mother”, says nursing technician that earns R$ 80 per 12-hour shift	Digital newspaper
16	Rede Globo Jornal Nacional	11/04	Health professionals complain about the lack of personal protective equipment	TV
17	BandNews	13/04	Health professionals report lack of PPE	Radio
18	Sputnik	15/04	Brazilian nurses foresee serious problems due to lack of protection against COVID-19	Digital newspaper
19	CNN	15/04	E Tem Mais podcast - There is a lack of protective equipment against the pandemic	Multimedia Internet
20	Telesur	15/04	Complaints of lack of inputs for personal health in Brazil	Multimedia Internet
21	O Globo	16/04	Video shows patients sharing hospital ward with dead people on suspicion of COVID-19 in Manaus	Online newspaper
22	Rede Record Domingo Espetacular	19/04	Lack of protective equipment poses a risk to health professionals and patients	TV
23	G1	21/04	In 1 month, doctors registered 3,100 complaints of lack of protective equipment to act against the coronavirus, says the association	Digital newspaper
24	R7	28/04	Hinterland cities face fear and lack of structure against COVID-19	Digital newspaper
25	KBS	02/05	Brazil, serious infection and death of the health team… Lack of protective equipment	TV
26	Exame	01/05	Nurses protest for better working conditions in the country	Online magazine
27	SBT	07/05	Professionals denounce the lack of personal protective equipment	TV
28	CNN	09/05	COVID-19: Women represent 85% of nurses	TV
29	R7	12/05	“Every day, we hear that more colleagues fell ill and died because of COVID-19”, says a COFEN spokesman	Internet
30	El Ciudadano	12/05	Brazil is a danger for South America: on the way to being the global epicenter of COVID-19	Internet
31	New York Times	16/05	Brazil, Once a Leader, Struggles to Contain Virus Amid Political Turmoil.	Online newspaper
32	Época	19/05	Most nursing professionals with coronavirus are in their 30s	Online magazine

NR	NETWORK	DATE	HEADLINE/SUBJECT	MEDIUM
1	BBC	16/03	“I thought I had been infected when attending a patient”: the routine of health professionals who take care of coronavirus cases in Brazil	Digital newspaper
2	BBC	24/03	“We take care of others, but nobody takes care of us”: nurses exposed to coronavirus by lack of equipment	Digital newspaper
3	Agência Pública	27/03	Health professionals: “either we care for ourselves or we fall ill”	News Agency - Internet
4	Rádio Web	30/03	Nursing professionals seek psychological care	Radio
5	CBN	31/03	Nursing professionals receive emotional support during the Covid-19 pandemic	Radio
6	Folha de São Paulo	06/04	Podcast debates pandemic pressures on health care professionals and the system	Online newspaper
7	UOL	07/04	Coronavirus: Council counts 16 deaths of nursing professionals	Digital newspaper
8	O Globo	07/04	Brazil has eight nurses killed by coronavirus and other nine deaths await confirmation	Online newspaper
9	G1	07/04	Coronavirus cases in Brazil on April 7	Digital newspaper
10	CBN	08/04	Council counts deaths of health professionals by COVID-19	Radio
11	Rede Record Fala Brasil	10/04	Nursing technician dies victim of coronavirus	TV
12	Época	11/04	On the front line of the fight, health professionals are diagnosed with COVID-19	Online magazine
13	Rede Globo Fantástico	12/04	COVID-19 makes victims among health professionals in Brazil	TV
14	Época	13/04	Groups of psychologists offer voluntary assistance to health professionals	Online magazine
15	CNN	13/04	Coronavirus has already infected 237 nursing professionals in the country	TV
16	O Globo	13/04	In Brazil, 14 nurses died from coronavirus and another 12 deaths are under investigation	Online newspaper
17	Estadão	14/04	Coronavirus: Council reveals 29 deaths of nurses and 36,000 complaints of lack of PPE	Online newspaper
18	UOL	14/04	Dead with symptoms of COVID-19, a nursing technician could not read the bride's farewell message in ICU	Digital newspaper
19	Revista Piauí	16/04	Fear wears white	Online magazine
20	RedeTV	17/04	COVID-19: 30 health professionals died in Brazil, says the Council	TV
21	IstoÉ	17/04	Health bottlenecks	Online magazine
22	G1	17/04	Brazil has 30 deaths of nursing professionals and more than 4 thousand on leave due to coronavirus	Internet
23	O Globo	19/04	Pandemic takes those working in the public health system to the extreme	Internet
24	Rede Globo Fantástico	19/04	ICU overcrowding: Fantástico shows the critical situation in capitals because of COVID-19	TV
25	EBC	20/04	Health care professionals should be careful with pressure and stress	News Agency - Internet
26	Rede Globo	21/04	Encontro com Fátima Bernardes - Rosana resigned from the hospital for fear of COVID-19	TV
27	O Globo	22/04	Coronavirus: four nurses report the exhaustive daily lives of those on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19	Online newspaper
28	UOL	23/04	Casualties in Health	Internet
29	Globo News	23/04	Nurses on leave because of Covid-19	TV
30	Estadão	23/04	Brazil has at least 38 coronavirus deaths in nursing, says COFEN	Online newspaper
31	EBC	24/04	“Together against the coronavirus” campaign tries to protect nursing professionals	News Agency - Internet
32	O Globo	26/04	Covid-19: Councils and psychologists offer online emotional support to healthcare professionals	Online newspaper
33	Rede Globo Fantástico	26/04	Health professionals deal with fear and pressure in the fight against coronavirus	TV
34	R7	27/04	Brazil has 4,602 nursing professionals away due to COVID-19	Online newspaper
35	Época	28/04	“I don't want them to go through this”: the alert made by the nursing technician during a live stream days before dying for COVID-19.	Online magazine
36	Telesur	28/04	More than 4,000 nurses are away by COVID-19 in Brazil	Internet
37	Rede Globo	01/05	Encontro com Fátima Bernardes - What is the feeling of Health Professionals?	TV
38	El País	02/05	The fight against coronavirus has women's face	Digital newspaper
39	BBC	02/05	Coronavirus: “Some will not be able to put their foot in an ICU anymore”, say therapists about health professionals	Digital newspaper
40	Rede Globo Fantástico	03/05	COVID-19 has saturated the health system in Brazilian capitals and is moving into the hinterlands of the country	TV
41	CNN	05/05	Brazil surpasses the USA in deaths of nursing professionals by COVID-19	Multimedia - Internet
42	El País	06/05	Brazil has already lost more nurses to coronavirus than Italy and Spain	Digital newspaper
43	Sputnik Mundo	06/05	More than 10,000 Brazilian nurses away from work on suspicion of COVID-19	Digital newspaper
44	G1	06/05	At least 76 nursing professionals have died as a result of COVID-19 in Brazil, according to the category council	Digital newspaper
45	UOL	06/05	Brazil exceeds 10,000 nurses on leave and 88 dead, double the number of Italy	Digital newspaper
46	GloboNews	07/05	91 deaths and more than 10,000 nurses away due to COVID-19	TV
47	Rede Globo Jornal Hoje	07/05	Brazil has more deaths of nurses than Italy	TV
48	R7	08/05	Brazil puts 504 nursing professionals on leave for COVID-19 in 24 hours	Digital newspaper
49	EBC	08/05	The number of nursing professionals who died of COVID-19 in Brazil is greater than in Italy	News Agency - Internet
50	Rede Record Fala Brasil	08/05	Professionals in a risk group are required to work at Grande SP	TV
51	Rede Globo Fantástico	10/05	COVID-19: Health professionals are exposed to the risk of contamination by Covid-19	TV
52	UOL	12/05	Survey shows death of 98 nurses due to coronavirus in 30 days	Digital newspaper
53	Band Jornal da Band	12/05	Risk profession in Brazil: 108 nurses died of COVID-19	TV
54	Daily Mail	12/05	Nearly 900 die from the coronavirus in a 24-hour period as Brazil's President Bolsonaro challenges reluctant governors by ordering gyms and hair salons to reopen.	Online newspaper
55	Rede Globo Jornal da Globo	12/05	One hundred and eight nursing professionals have already died from COVID-19.	TV
56	ABC News	13/05	Brazil's coronavirus cases pass Germany's as President Jair Bolsonaro fights to open gyms, beauty parlours.	Digital newspaper
57	Uol	13/05	“My mother wanted me to resign”, says a nurse who had COVID-19	Digital newspaper
58	R7	14/05	Brazil has 14,465 nursing professionals away due to COVID-19	Digital newspaper
59	TV Brasil	14/05	More than 30 thousand health professionals contracted COVID-19	TV
60	Uol	15/05	Coronavirus: Latest news and what we know until this Friday (15) - RJ: State has record of deaths of nurses	Digital newspaper
61	Crescer	15/05	#MomsinHealth: “Mom, when will coronavirus go away so I can kiss you?”, says a 6-year-old son to the nurse	Online magazine
62	Uol	15/05	Why hospitals in RJ have more deaths of nurses in the country	Digital newspaper
63	RadioWeb	16/05	Brazil already has more than 30 thousand health professionals contaminated	Radio
64	BBC	17/05	“I haven't seen my daughter in a month”: nurses live a routine of long hours, low wages and now, loneliness	Digital newspaper
65	CGTN	17/05	The unwanted record: 116 nurses succumbed to COVID-19 in Brazil	Multimedia Internet
66	Folha de São Paulo	17/05	Nurses at Risk	Online newspaper
67	Wall Street Journal	19/05	Brazil's Nurses Are Dying as COVID-19 Overwhelms Hospitals	Online newspaper
68	R7	19/05	Brazil loses 106 nursing professionals in the fight against COVID-19	Internet
69	Bloomberg	21/05	COVID-19 Is Killing Nurses in Brazil More Than Anywhere Else	News Agency - Internet
70	Uol	21/05	COVID: leave of absence could have saved 43 nurses’ lives, says council	Digital newspaper
71	Uol	21/05	Brazil leads ranking of deaths of nurses due to coronavirus	Digital newspaper
72	O Globo	22/05	Brazil surpasses the mark of one hundred doctors killed by COVID-19, two per day	Online newspaper
73	Uol	23/05	MPT investigates complaint of masks without filter for COVID in hospitals in RJ	Digital newspaper
74	Folha de São Paulo	26/05	Council of the Ministry of Health launches alert after a world record of 150 deaths of nurses in Brazil	Online newspaper
75	EBC	26/05	More than 5 thousand health professionals will be hired to fight COVID-19	News Agency - Internet
76	The Guardian	27/05	“My mother was murdered”: how COVID-19 stalks Brazil's nurses	Online newspaper
77	G1	27/05	Brazil is the country with more deaths of nurses due to COVID-19 in the world, say entities	Digital newspaper
78	SBT	28/05	COVID-19: 165 dead Nurses in Brazil	TV
79	Marie Claire	29/05	Who cares for the nurses’ children during the pandemic?	Online magazine
80	R7	31/05	The coronavirus death rate of Brazilian nursing professionals is the highest in the world	Digital newspaper

[1] Corresponding author Neyson Pinheiro Freire, E-mail: neysonfreire@gmail.com

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News on Brazilian Nursing in the COVID-19 pandemic

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