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Updated: 11 Mar 2021, 12:26 PM IST - The Wall Street Journal
Brazil, Hit by Covid-19 Variant, Surpasses U.S. in Daily Cases and Deaths
P.1 strain from the Amazon fills up ICUs across South America?s most populous country; some patients left to die
By Samantha Pearson and Luciana Magalhaes
Updated March 10, 2021 7:25 pm ET
... Public health specialists lay part of the blame on the rapid spread of the P.1 strain from the Amazonian city of Manaus, which studies have shown to be more contagious and better able to reinfect people than previous versions of the disease. Deaths have also surged as Brazil?s health system has struggled to cope, meaning patients who could have been saved were left to die in chaotic hospital corridors or?in the worst cases?suffocated to death for lack of oxygen.
Brazil is now home to hundreds of new Covid-19 variants, researchers said, warning that other more dangerous versions could emerge the longer the disease is left to fester and mutate, threatening to undermine the progress of other countries against the pandemic.
... Like many doctors across the country, Mr. Parrini said he was seeing more younger patients?many in their 30s and 40s?than during Brazil?s first wave of cases in the middle of last year. Researchers are still trying to understand why.
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Brazil has more than 2,000 COVID-19 dead in 24 hours for second day
MARCH 11, 2021
By Reuters Staff
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil reported 2,233 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, the second consecutive day that fatalities have exceeded 2,000, the health ministry said on Thursday, and 75,412 new cases of the novel coronavirus infection.
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Government auxiliaries defend reaction strategy for what they classify as the worst government moment
Bolsonaro Adopts 'Vaccine Plan' to Try to Stem Loss in Popularity
Government auxiliaries defend reaction strategy for what they classify as the worst government moment
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The president's response to his eroding image is the Plano Vacina - Vaccine Plan. It involves both publications on social media to show the effort of the federal administration in the purchase of vaccines and the recording of videos on investments made in the health sector
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Brazil plunges into crisis as a second wave and deadly new variant overwhelm hospitals
By Flora Charner and Marcia Reverdosa, CNN
Updated 4:39 AM ET, Thu March 11, 2021
In 22 of Brazil's 26 states, ICU occupancy has surpassed 80%. In the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, hospital patients must line up to wait for beds as occupancy rates in intensive care units soar past 103%. The neighboring state of Santa Catarina has already surpassed 99% occupancy and is on the verge of collapsing, as cases surge throughout the state.One hospital in Santa Catarina's capital, Florianopolis, is already beyond capacity. David Molin, the hospital's head nurse, tells CNN his team is exhausted and overwhelmed.
"I was here during the first wave and it wasn't like this. We are completely overwhelmed, with our occupancy rate at over 100%. Many of those patients who are waiting for an ICU don't make it," Molina told CNN during a telephone interview.
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A second wave of Covid-19 is ripping through Brazil, pushing hospitals and ICUs toward collapse and claiming record numbers of daily deaths.
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Brazil posts new record of 1,972 COVID-19 deaths in a day
Outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Sao Paulo
Tue, March 9, 2021, 6:38 PM?1 min read
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Rio de Janeiro-based research institute Fiocruz said in a report on Tuesday that more than 80% of intensive care unit (ICU) beds are occupied in the capitals of 25 of Brazil's 27 states. In 15 of Brazil's largest cities, 90% of ICU beds occupied.
The institute said a growing number of cities risk a collapse of their health systems.
Brazil registered 1,972 new COVID-19 deaths in a single day on Tuesday, a record, according to the Health Ministry. The country had 70,764 new cases of coronavirus, reaching a total of 11.12 million infections. Brazil had 268,370 coronavirus deaths.
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Some of the above articles read like the old avian flu pandemic planning scenarios. We have no way to verify the facts but these articles together paint a grim picture.
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Articles which speak of younger people becoming sick in Brazil. The articles are in Portuguese. I have put the translated title in English. After following the link you can right click the article page and choose to translate it to English. I believe they are still trying to determine why more young people are becoming infected. The why is important, but the facts on the ground at the moment is also important.
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Young people are finally scared
https://gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br/colunistas/paulo-germano/noticia/2021/03/os-jovens-finalmente-estao-com-medo-ckloctq5d002q014nyew5bf2x.html
What's behind the rise in youth admissions to Covid
Araraquara has a 21-year-old intubated and sees deaths of young people multiply by ten
https://www.folhape.com.br/noticias/...ens-se/175151/
More and more young patients seek outpatient care
Um levantamento da Secretaria Municipal de Saúde sobre os atendimentos no Ambulatório de Campanha, localizado no Ginásio Poliesportivo de Santa Cruz, revela um novo perfil de pacientes no município. Da metade de fevereiro em diante, além do número de doentes, aumentaram também os sintomas, piorando o estado clínico de quem busca o médico. Só o […]
DJ's mother who died with Covid-19 thought that risk of the disease was 'media', until she lost her son: 'It took a little piece of me'
Aos 28 anos, Ângelo Gomes Júnior não tinha nenhuma doença preexistente. Infectologistas alertam que pessoas jovens têm sido mais afetadas pela doença por se exporem mais.
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Also please see:
Brazil - Media: 7 day moving average trend of COVID-19 coronavirus deaths up 23% - hospital ICU occupancy grows across the country - March 2, 2021
Brazil hospitals 'run out of oxygen' for virus patients in Manaus as hundreds wait for beds - COVID19 epidemic worsening. Because of the new Brazil P1 variant of SARSCoV2? January 15, 2021
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Brazil In Crisis: 'It Feels Like You Are In Stalingrad, in World War II'
March 5, 20212:24 PM ET
The health-care system is about to collapse – even in Sao Paulo, Brazil's most populous city with the largest medical infrastructure in the country, Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, a Brazilian-born Duke University neuroscientist, told NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.
He describes a "horrible" situation with hospitals at full capacity, turning people away, with some left to die in ambulances or on the street. "They [hospitals] are refusing to take patients because they cannot find a bed in the ICU. So, let's say you have a heart attack or you have a stroke or you had a car accident ... people are actually dying, waiting for ICU bed."
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Covid: Bolsonaro tells Brazilians to stop 'whining' as deaths top 260,000
The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has triggered a wave of revulsion by telling citizens to stop “whining” about a coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 260,000 people.
The far-right populist made the inflammatory declaration on Thursday, as Brazil’s already dire Covid situation deteriorated and its average daily death toll rose above that of the United States.
“Stop all this fussing and whining. How long are you going to keep on crying?” Bolsonaro asked supporters in the midwestern state of Goi?s, where nearly 9,000 people have died.
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World's Worst Covid Crisis Is Unfolding in Brazil, Where No Fix Seems to Work
Three adjacent cities with three different approaches illustrate the despair.
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Andre Romani Pinto, Simone Preissler Iglesias, and Martha Viotti Beck
March 5, 2021, 6:00 AM CST
More than a year after a spiked virus launched a murderous campaign across the globe, most countries have put the worst behind them, aided by aggressive government policies and vaccines.
Not Brazil.
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Nothing better illustrates the bizarrely fractured nature of Brazil’s Covid policies — and how they’ve sowed confusion and anger and suffering — than three cities along a 140-mile roadway in the state of Sao Paulo, where three distinct approaches to the pandemic coexist. In one, practically anything goes; in another, it’s full lockdown; and in a third, mass vaccination is underway. Each is a mess, overrun by rampant illness and mired in a deep economic funk that shows no signs of ending anytime soon.
“What we’re living through now is much worse than what we had before,” said Denise Garrett, an infectious disease expert and vice president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute in Washington. “I see a huge storm forming in Brazil.”
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Experts warn Brazil facing darkest days of Covid crisis as deaths hit highest level
Intensive care units in 17 of the country’s 26 states were near capacity, while six states and the capital had run out of ICU beds
Politicians from across the spectrum voiced anger and exasperation at the deteriorating situation on Monday, after Brazil’s weekly average of Covid deaths hit its highest level since the epidemic began last February and hospitals around the country reported being swamped.
According to the newspaper O Globo, intensive care units in 17 of Brazil’s 26 states were near capacity, while six states and the capital Bras?lia had run out of intensive care beds altogether.
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“I don’t know where this will end … The country is running the risk of becoming one big Manaus,” Mandetta warned in reference to the Amazonian capital which made international headlines in January after hospitals ran out of oxygen because of a Covid surge.
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Intensive care units in 17 of the country’s 26 states were near capacity, while six states and the capital had run out of ICU beds
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