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Abstract

: In 2020, COVID-19 arrives in Brazil and community transmission is soon confirmed. Debates are held in the midst of a lack of national coordination, which produces different responses at each level of government. There is an emphasis on hospital care, necessary for the care of severe cases. Changes in care occur in all levels of Health, Education and Social Assistance in which occupational therapists work. The objective was to know and group the scientific communications of occupational therapists in the first year of the pandemic. In March 2021, a bibliographic review was carried out in the Virtual Health Library, which includes the Scientific Electronic Library Online database, the Journal Portal of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, in addition to screening the electronic pages of seven Ibero-American journals of Occupational therapy. The descriptors “occupational therapy” were used combined with the descriptors “COVID-19”, “coronavirus”, “pandemics”, “quarantine”, “syndemics”. Items with practices implemented during the pandemic, written by at least one occupational therapist, whose text was fully available, were included, totaling 17 articles grouped by field, level of care, population. Hospital care with practices adapted to containment of biohazards predominates, followed by Primary Care, and wide adoption of Telehealth.