The brazilian tragedy: Where patients living at the 'Earth's lungs' die of asphyxia, and the fallacy of herd immunity is killing people

dc.date.accessioned2021-04-13T20:51:04Z
dc.date.available2021-04-13T20:51:04Z
dc.date.created2021-04-13T20:51:04Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/9241
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100757
dc.description.abstractThe Brazilian COVID-19 pandemic has stretched an already overwhelmed, understaffed and underfunded public health system to the breaking point. Brazil's COVID-19 death toll is the second highest in the world behind only the United States, with more than 8.9 million reported cases and 220,000 deaths [at the time of writing]. In the first wave of COVID-19, between May and June 2020, Amazonas state has registered nearly 19 coronavirus deaths per 100,000 residents, compared to 4 deaths? for all of Brazil. As the state experiences a second wave of COVID-19 in January 2021, Amazonas is registering 142 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, while the national average is 98...
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relationeClinicalMedicine
dc.relation2589-5370
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.subjectasphyxia
dc.subjectherd immunity
dc.titleThe brazilian tragedy: Where patients living at the 'Earth's lungs' die of asphyxia, and the fallacy of herd immunity is killing people
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article


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