Continuity and Discontinuity in Pandemic Narratives

The New Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Roraima and Amazonas

Abstract

The objective is to update data and narratives about the pandemic in the states of Amazonas and Roraima, through basic bibliographic research of an exploratory nature that allows the collection of updated reference data, using sources made up of material already prepared, consisting of books, scientific articles and official internet sites located in libraries, which allows the perception of the object of interest as a total social fact. The global, Latin American and Brazilian conjuncture was analyzed in an interdisciplinary way, highlighting economic and social data that contribute to highlight situations in the context of the greatest health, hospital and moral crisis that is facing. The analyzed states have a high number of deaths and infected people, and Amazonas, from its capital Manaus, is the epicenter of the pandemic, with 8,157 dead and 331,172 infected until the closing of this article in the first half of March 2021.