• Hebert Luan Pereira Campos Dos Santos, Fernanda Beatriz Melo Maciel, Kênia Rocha Santos, Cídia Dayara Vieira Silva da Conceição, Rian Silva de Oliveira, Natiene Ramos Ferreira da Silva, and Nília Maria de Brito Lima Prado.
• Instituto Multidisciplinar em Saúde/Campus Anísio Teixeira, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA). R. Hormindo Barros 58, Quadra 17, Lote 58, Candeias. 45029-094 Vitória da Conquista BA Brasil. ohebertluan@gmail.com.
• Cien Saude Colet. 2020 Oct 1; 25 (suppl 2): 4211-4224.

AbstractThis study discusses to what extent the inclusion, or not, of the race/color variable in epidemiological analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic can work as an external manifestation of necropolitics and as a producer of health inequities. We conducted a literature review on 09 articles, and on Scientific Electronic Library, PubMed and Virtual Health Library databases. We also conducted a documental analysis on 27 epidemiological reports from all the federal states and the Federal District of Brazil. We did not see much information regarding race/color, which can be interpreted as an intentional omission in order to hide those who the epidemics affects the most. The denial of basic and fundamental rights is the element that characterizes the larger racist structure of Brazil's COVID-19 policies.

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