A BREEZE AT ELMO, A BREATH OF LIFE AT COVID-19
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COVID-19 represents the biggest pandemic faced by humanity in the last 100 years. At the time of writing this article there are approximately 5 million deaths from the disease worldwide. In Brazil, at least 608,000 people lost their lives, around 24,500 in the state of Ceará. The first cases were confirmed in Fortaleza in March 2020.
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