Thursday 29 April 2021

Jörg Nowak (2021) Brazil after the Collapse (SP)

Nowak, Jörg. 2021. “Brazil after the Collapse.” Socialist Project. 13 April.

Health experts warned about it for weeks. In early March, the Brazilian health system entered a state of collapse under the weight of a nationwide spike in COVID-19 infections. Hospitals were not able to attend to all patients who needed treatment. By the end of March, all over Brazil, more than 6000 people were waiting for an ICU bed, most of them in overcrowded health centres and emergency wards without the necessary equipment and personnel for treatment.

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