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Brazil downplays the threat of coronavirus: “it is overstated”
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro minimized the threat of the new coronavirus - which has killed nearly 4,000 people in more than 60 countries and tanked global financial markets, saying its destructive power has been “overstated”. Read full article
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Mar 12th, 2020 - 09:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0She said: ”There are a lot of young people in our Intensive Care Units (ICUs) - our youngest is a 38-year-old who had had no comorbidities (underlying health problems).
“A lot of patients need help with breathing but there are not enough ventilators.
”They've told us that starting from now we'll have to choose who to intubate - priority will go to the young or those without comorbidities.
“At Niguarda, the other big hospital in Milan, they are not intubating anyone over 60, which is really, really young.”
“Lombardy, which has the best healthcare in the country, is collapsing, so I don’t dare to think what would happen in less efficient regions.”
But Brazil's healthcare will have no problems?
I suppose he's right. What's serious about a global pandemic when you're already implementing the destruction of the Amazon rain forest?
Mar 14th, 2020 - 05:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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