For immediate release: Thursday, April 22, 2021
Boston, MA – An overall failure in Brazil to implement prompt, coordinated, and equitable responses fueled COVID-19’s spread in a context of stark local socioeconomic and health care inequalities, according to an analysis from researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Researchers analyzed the fast spread of COVID-19 cases and deaths across Brazilian states over a nine-month period in 2020. Factors at play in the swift and uneven spread of disease included disparities in health resources and income, lack of containment measures, politicization of the pandemic, and varied responses across states and cities. Based on their findings, the researchers warned that the P.1 variant, first documented in Brazil and already fueling a record number of cases and deaths and the near collapse of the hospital system, is likely to spur the emergence of new variants, isolate Brazil as a threat to global health security, and lead to a
Brazil Hits 4,000 Daily Covid Deaths With Virus Running Rampant
Rachel Gamarski, Caroline Aragaki and Danielle Chaves, Bloomberg News Mourners watch as workers wearing protective equipment bury the casket of a Covid-19 victim at the Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Wednesday, March 24, 2021. Brazil reported more than 3,000 Covid-19 deaths for the first time in a 24-hour period on Tuesday, as the pandemic spreads unchecked across Latin Americaâs biggest economy and the nation approaches 300,000 lives taken. Photographer: Victor Moriyama/Bloomberg , Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) Brazil reported more than 4,000 Covid-19 daily deaths for the first time as the pandemic continues to rage across the vast nation.