Vírus e Mapas

o mapeamento de doenças virais e os paradigmas da cartografia

Abstract

The control of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic is the main challenge facing scientists today, as it is a new disease, research on its behavior, disseminations and treatment is still ongoing. One of the first actions to understand the new coronavirus was its mapping with georeferenced data, with the Johns Hopkins University Dashboard being the pioneer in making this information available in real time. This action sparked the interest of thousands of people, directly or indirectly affected by the virus around the world, at the same time, it also rekindled interest in mapping diseases from the past. Curiously, one of the first works of mapping diseases using data was on the Yellow Fever outbreak in New York, in 1796. In Brazil, the Rockfeller Foundation also used this resource in the work of eradicating Yellow Fever. This cartographic medicine is based on the paradigms of cartography, which work with maps as objective, impartial and precise tools.