Originally, 'Pagan' was a putdown for the country folk who continued to worship the old Roman gods rather than embracing Christianity. Today, paganism is having a resurgence.
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Now that we are a year and a half into the pandemic and deaths in the U.S. are trending downward â especially with almost 38% of the total U.S. population fully vaccinated â some sense of normalcy has returned to many of us. In particular, since the FDA has approved the Pfizer vaccine for children 12 and up and weâre on track to have safe and effective COVID vaccines for children 6 months and older by the end of the year.
But in Brazil, COVID deaths are now at their highest. Though all the evidence points to COVID rarely killing young children, the numbers of very young kids dying of COVID are much higher in Brazil than they are in the U.S. Itâs tragic, and the experts arenât sure why â although the failed response by the right-wing government is thought to be responsible for over 360,000 preventable deaths.
Doctors have warned that a growing number of babies in Brazil are mysteriously dying of COVID-19.
Why does Brazil have terrifying COVID-19 deaths in children?
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Coronavirus Pandemic Overwhelms Brazilian City Of Manaus MANAUS, BRAZIL - MAY 21: A nurse wearing a protective mask and shield holds an indigenous baby while his mother gets vaccination at Parque das Tribos community, on May 21 2020 in Manaus, Brazil. Medical teams from Healths Secretary of Manaus area performing vaccination against flu and testing to detect coronavirus (COVID-19) infecctions on indigenous communities.
Despite overwhelming evidence that the coronavirus seldom kills children under the age of five, 1,300 babies have died due to it in the last year. The increased deaths are being blamed on Brazil s COVID-19 infection rate, the second-highest in the world, a significant lack of monitoring, and a president accused of failing to treat the virus seriously enough.