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The brazilian tragedy: Where patients living at the ‘Earth's lungs’ die of asphyxia, and the fallacy of herd immunity is killing people.

2021; Elsevier BV; Volume: 32; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100757

ISSN

2589-5370

Autores

Mônica Malta, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Patricia García,

Tópico(s)

Immune responses and vaccinations

Resumo

The Brazilian COVID-19 pandemic has stretched an already overwhelmed, understaffed and underfunded public health system to the breaking point [1]. Brazil's COVID-19 death toll is the second highest in the world behind only the United States, with more than 8.9 million reported cases and 220,000 deaths [at the time of writing]. In the first wave of COVID-19, between May and June 2020, Amazonas state has registered nearly 19 coronavirus deaths per 100,000 residents, compared to 4 deaths? for all of Brazil.

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