STATISTICS - A CRUCIAL TOOL IN THE CONTROL OF THE PANDEMIC OF COVID19: THE REALITY OF THE FACTS

Abstract

With the emergence of (SARS-COV-2), popularly known as Corona Virus in late 2019 in Wuhan province in China, nearby countries had to take extreme measures. South Korea became known for the agility with which it tracked, quantified and isolated citizens who had contact with suspected infected persons. By mapping and stratifying regions, it was able to unequivocally contain the outbreak that would later devastate the planet.Eventually, the pathogen was discovered in Brazil in late February 2020, where a man from Italy would bring with him the first official case recorded in the country. It was not long before dozens, hundreds and thousands of people began to show symptoms of the disease. The political and medical authorities had never encountered a problem of this nature before, insane measures were taken, there were no precedents to rely on, as a first response, a blockade was assigned, so that hospitals, doctors and nurses could prepare for a war, where the enemy was invisible, fast and highly transmissible. In this case, it was of utmost importance to create statistical data, samples, frequencies and graphs to control the exponentially increasing cases.In this context, this research aims to show the importance of statistical mathematics for rapid response in disease control and inoculation. Without this tool, we would drift towards an even greater catastrophe. As I often say: if there is something that cannot be explained by numbers, it probably does not exist.