Brazil s Covid-19 wave is pushing healthcare workers to the limit CNN 1 day ago By Matt Rivers and Marcia Reverdosa, CNN © Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images Medical staff members transport a patient on a stretcher at the Pedro DellAntonia Sports Complex field hospital as coronavirus cases soar on March 11, 2021 in Santo Andre, Brazil.
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for Covid-19 cases and deaths, some health workers are barely hanging on. One nurse in São Paulo told CNN that he had to assist in removing one elderly Covid-19 patient from a ventilator knowing that it could be a death sentence because there weren t enough to go around. A paramedic in the same city recounted the day an entire intensive care unit s oxygen supply suddenly malfunctioned, threatening to suffocate intubated Covid-19 patients as he raced to pump air into their lungs.
ANALYSIS: Signs of collapse across Brazil as Covid spirals out of control Bolsonaro seems to have little response
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Signs of collapse across Brazil as Covid spirals out of control Bolsonaro seems to have little response
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