Covid-19: perfil epidemiológico dos usuários testados em uma unidade de Atenção Primária à Saúde / COVID-19: epidemiological profile of users tested at a Primary Health Care unit
The second semester of 2019 was plunged into a worldwide debate concerning cases of contamination by an etiological agent that, following genetical research, was classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as COVID-19. In Brazil, the virus was first recorded in February 2020, from then on Primary Health Care (PHC) played a key role during the pandemic by offering services such as the rapid testing for virusdetection. Hence, this epidemiological, descriptive, quantitative and documentary study sought to describe the epidemiological profile of PHC users tested for COVID-19 using the rapid test. The research took place in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, between June 10 and August 5, 2020. Most tested users were women (60 percent), mixed race/brown (53.8 percent), aged 56 to 60 years (14 percent), in stable relationships (61.5 percent), with complete high school (45.4 percent), sedentary (56.9 percent), and non-smokers (96.2 percent. The results allowed us to outline a local epidemiological profile which, when taken with other data obtained throughout the pandemic, has contributed to new measures for promotion, prevention and recovery in the health-disease process.