All across Brazil, slums known as Favelas have long been places of crime and poverty, marked by overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. They are among the hardest hit by the pandemic, in a country where the death toll just passed 450,000. In the second of two reports, NewsHour special correspondent Simon Ostrovsky and producer Charles Lyons report on Brazil s COVID crisis.
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Judy Woodruff:
All across Brazil, slums, known as favelas, have long been places of crime and poverty marked by overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. They are among the hardest hit by the pandemic in a country where the death toll just passed 450,000.