Dynamics of COVID-19 mitigation inefficiency in Brazil

Abstract: In this work Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is employed in thirty-day windows to quantify temporal evolution of relative pandemic mitigation inefficiency of Brazilian municipalities. For each thirty-day window the results of inefficiency scores of over five thousand Brazilian municipalities are displayed on maps, to address the spatial distribution of the corresponding values. This phenomenological spatiotemporal approach reveals location of the hotspots, in terms of relative pandemic inefficiency of the municipalities, at different points in time along the pandemic. It is expected that the current approach may subsidize decision making through comparative analysis of previous practice, and thus contribute to the future pandemic mitigation efforts.