A pandemia da COVID-19 provocou alterações nos pilares geopolíticos e culturais da sociedade, podendo resultar em impactos psicológicos negativos frente às incertezas do cenário. Os jovens ...universitários, frequentemente identificados como uma população vulnerável ao desenvolvimento de ansiedade, depressão e estresse, demandam cuidados qualificados oriundos de dispositivos da saúde mental, a fim de acolher o sofrimento e elaborar estratégias de enfrentamento diante de emergências sanitárias. Diante disso, objetivou-se relatar a experiência acerca de uma intervenção grupal breve, com a finalidade de refletir sobre a importância de grupos terapêuticos online estruturados de forma transdisciplinar. Considera-se que estes se apresentam como potentes ferramentas de atenção psicossocial e podem ser incluídos em programas de prevenção e remediação dos danos causados pela pandemia da COVID-19. O grupo terapêutico se mostrou como potencial ferramenta para o enfrentamento dos impactos causados pelo cenário de emergência sanitária e acolhimento das demandas emocionais da comunidade acadêmica, corroborando para uma maior qualidade de vida dos universitários.
The SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern (VOC) Delta was first detected in India in October 2020. The first imported cases of the Delta variant in Brazil were identified in April 2021 in the southern ...region, followed by more cases in different regions during the following months. By early September 2021, Delta was already the dominant variant in the southeastern (87%), southern (73%), and northeastern (52%) Brazilian regions. This study aimed to understand the spatiotemporal dissemination dynamics of Delta in Brazil. To this end, we employed a combination of maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayesian methods to reconstruct the evolutionary relationship of 2,264 VOC Delta complete genomes (482 from this study) recovered across 21 of the 27 Brazilian federal units. Our phylogeographic analyses identified three major transmission clusters of Delta in Brazil. The clade BR-I (
= 1,560) arose in Rio de Janeiro in late April 2021 and was the major cluster behind the dissemination of the VOC Delta in the southeastern, northeastern, northern, and central-western regions. The AY.101 lineage (
= 207) that arose in the Paraná state in late April 2021 and aggregated the largest fraction of sampled genomes from the southern region. Lastly, the AY.46.3 lineage emerged in Brazil in the São Paulo state in early June 2021 and remained mostly restricted to this state. In the rapid turnover of viral variants characteristic of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Brazilian regions seem to occupy different stages of an increasing prevalence of the VOC Delta in their epidemic profiles. This process demands continuous genomic and epidemiological surveillance toward identifying and mitigating new introductions, limiting their dissemination, and preventing the establishment of more significant outbreaks in a population already heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Amid the SARS-CoV-2 continuously changing epidemic profile, this study details the space-time dynamics of the emergence of the Delta lineage across Brazilian territories, pointing out its multiple introductions in the country and its most prevalent sublineages. Some of these sublineages have their emergence, alongside their genomic composition and geographic distribution, detailed here for the first time. A special focus is given to the emergence process of Delta outside the country's south and southeast regions, the most populated and subjects of most published SARS-CoV-2 studies in Brazil. In summary, the study allows a better comprehension of the evolution process of a SARS-CoV-2 lineage that would be associated with a significant recrudescence of the pandemic in Brazil.
