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Eugene

(61,969 posts) Fri Apr 10, 2020, 02:01 AM Apr 2020

Brazil's Amazonas state warns its health system overwhelmed by coronavirus

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS APRIL 9, 2020 / 6:09 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

Brazil's Amazonas state warns its health system overwhelmed by coronavirus

Bruno Kelly
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MANAUS (Reuters) - Brazil’s Amazonas state warned on Thursday that its health system has been overwhelmed by the coronavirus epidemic, with all intensive care beds and ventilators already taken as a result of the outbreak.

As the virus spreads across the country from its epicenter in Brazil’s wealthiest city of Sao Paulo, it is highlighting the huge discrepancies in healthcare provisions in this continent-sized country.

Manaus, a city of 2 million in the heart of the Amazon rainforest and the capital of Amazonas, has been particularly hard hit, with 800 confirmed cases. The state as a whole has had 40 deaths out of around 900 confirmed cases.

Manaus is the only city in the state with intensive care units (ICUs).

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This is the time the country needs a coup, for real. Bolsonaro only makes things worse. Judi Lynn Apr 2020 #1

Judi Lynn

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1. This is the time the country needs a coup, for real. Bolsonaro only makes things worse.

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Fri Apr 10, 2020, 02:57 AM

Apr 2020

They don't call him the "Trump of the Tropics" for nothing.

He has also chosen to scoff at the seriousness of the disease, to try to avoid a lockdown, has gotten in the way throughout. He is exactly like Trump.

Poor Brazil. Hope the challenge will bring people of character to the forefront.

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