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

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dc.contributor.author Malta, Monica
dc.contributor.author Strathdee, Steffanie A.
dc.contributor.author Garcia Funegra, Patricia Jannet
dc.date.accessioned 2021-04-13T20:51:04Z
dc.date.available 2021-04-13T20:51:04Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/9241
dc.description.abstract The 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... en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.relation.ispartofseries eClinicalMedicine
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject asphyxia en_US
dc.subject herd immunity en_US
dc.title The brazilian tragedy: Where patients living at the 'Earth's lungs' die of asphyxia, and the fallacy of herd immunity is killing people en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100757
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.02.00
dc.relation.issn 2589-5370


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