Abstract
Objective: Relate the impacts of COVID-19 on health professionals in the pandemic context. ‘Methods: A literary review was carried out in the following scientific databases in the medical field: SciElo, PUBMED and BVS-Bireme. As inclusion criteria, only original articles, reviews, guidelines and recommendations from official scientific bodies published in 2020 with the descriptors "Health Personnel”, “Coronavirus Infections”, “Impacts on Health”, “Pandemics” were filtered and articles prior to 2020 were excluded. Results: The numbers of health professionals died and infected were reported through the reviewed articles and by the governmental health agencies of the countries consulted, in addition to the verification of the impacts related to the availability of hospital supplies, psychosocial disorders and appearance or aggravation of pre-established diseases. Final considerations: Health professionals represent a highly vulnerable group in the face of the current COVID-19 pandemic. The most relevant impacts were concentrated on the scarcity of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), lack of support from public institutions and authorities, lack of psychological support and the risk of contagion that raises feelings of generalized fear and panic in these people.