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Covid: Brazil passes 400,000 deaths amid slow vaccination
BBC ^ | 4/30/21

Posted on 04/30/2021 5:07:42 AM PDT by EBH

The number of deaths related to Covid-19 has passed 400,000 in Brazil, the second-highest in the world, as the country continues to struggle with its vaccination programme. There were 3,001 deaths in 24 hours, after a peak of more than 4,000 was reached at the start of April.

The 14-day average of deaths and cases remains high but has seen a slight fall. Congress has opened an inquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic.

President Jair Bolsonaro, who has frequently spoken out against lockdowns, masks and defended unproved drugs as treatment, is facing widespread criticism and his support has plummeted. The outbreak has been fuelled by more transmissible variants of the virus and a lack of co-ordinated national measures. The situation has improved in many areas, including where the health system was on the brink of collapse, after states and cities imposed restrictions, but they are already being eased.

The rate of occupancy of intensive care unit beds remains at or above 90% in more than a third of the states, according to the health institute Fiocruz, which said the scenario remained "critical". "[There's] a tendency of a slight fall but not yet of containment of the epidemic," the institute said in a report (in Portuguese), warning that the daily number of deaths is likely to remain high. Brazil recorded 100,000 deaths in just 37 days, between March and April, which were the worst months in the country. Only the US has a higher death toll.

Since the start of the pandemic, Brazil has had more than 14.5 million cases. Meanwhile, some cities have had to temporarily halt their vaccination programmes amid a shortage of doses. About 13% of the population of 212 million has received at least one dose, according to the Our World in Data tracker.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: brazil; justdoasyouretold
100,000 deaths in 37 days...
1 posted on 04/30/2021 5:07:42 AM PDT by EBH
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To: EBH
When I see big numbers like that I always think of this as my frame of reference that I'm familiar with to get the full scope of what it means.


2 posted on 04/30/2021 5:13:14 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Abathar

If the numbers are to be believed (which I’m incredibly skeptical of with no flu deaths at all this year) then we have lost a total of 5 of those stadiums so far.


3 posted on 04/30/2021 5:15:37 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: EBH

I would like to know how many people in China actually died from this. Probably that good deal more than what the Beeb would be allowed to tell us. If the Chernobyl disaster would have happened nowadays, I can see the BBC and other INGSOC media outlets basically ignoring it until well afterwards.


4 posted on 04/30/2021 5:17:03 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: EBH

Sorry but I don’t believe it. More fear porn based on questionable and unverifiable data.


5 posted on 04/30/2021 5:19:23 AM PDT by Third Wheel
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To: Abathar

Agreed. Just more fear porn. If those number are correct, there would need to be massive bonfires or graves to dispose of the dead bodies. Show me the piles dead bodies, the huge common graves or the giant bonfires.


6 posted on 04/30/2021 5:23:06 AM PDT by Third Wheel
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To: OttawaFreeper

That’s a good question. I recall an article where there were lots of cellphones in China that suddenly went ‘dead.’ They tried to pass it off as a software routing change or something or other.

Why Did 21 Million Phone Numbers Disappear from China After Coronavirus Outbreak?
https://www.kmov.com/why-did-21-million-phone-numbers-disappear-from-china-after-coronavirus-outbreak/article_80456379-e8af-52a8-9366-f8af64b45fd1.html

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to devastate the world in ways no one ever imagined, some are questioning whether China is lying about the extent of COVID-19’s impact on its own country.

Officially, China reported nearly 82,000 cases of the coronavirus and around 3,300 deaths, with only a handful of new cases each day, and announced the country is largely in recovery as China ended its lockdown of Wuhan, the city of 11 million people where the outbreak began. In comparison, the United States reported nearly 500,000 cases of the coronavirus around the country and more than 18,000 deaths by the disease – a figure some officials even believe is under-reported, despite grossly surpassing the numbers coming out of China.

So when major cellphone carriers in China reported a loss in nearly 21 million subscriptions in January and February, some skeptics theorized that the number of phone numbers that disappeared from the original hotspot of the disease may correlate to the real number of lives lost to the novel coronavirus.

According to data published by the mobile carriers, China Mobile Ltd. saw a drop of nearly 7.25 million subscribers and China Unicom Hong Kong Ltd. lost 7.8 million subscribers in January and February, while China Telecom Corp. lost 5.6 million subscribers in February alone, the Associated Press reported.

China affairs expert Tang Jinyuan explained that having a cellphone and a cell subscription is married to daily life in China. “Dealing with the government for pensions and social security, buying train tickets, shopping … no matter what people want to do, they are required to use cellphones,” she said in an interview with the Epoch Times.


7 posted on 04/30/2021 5:23:52 AM PDT by EBH (Republics are only meant for a good and moral people. 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: Third Wheel

Anyone notice that the globablist are in phase 2 of the vax fear porn. Get the rich countries vaxed up and then hold them hostage to pay for the rest of the world....or else. Oh and Gates refuses to share the vax formulas to make generics because he knows rich countries will pay up.


8 posted on 04/30/2021 5:25:11 AM PDT by happyhomemaker (Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Rom 12:12)
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To: Third Wheel

Here ya’ go or is this still more fear porn for you?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-cemetery-idUSKBN21K3J3


9 posted on 04/30/2021 5:26:24 AM PDT by EBH (Republics are only meant for a good and moral people. 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: EBH

You ever been to Brazil? I have and that is a typical ghetto/slum graveyard. Nothing unusual. Just fear porn.


10 posted on 04/30/2021 5:35:05 AM PDT by Third Wheel
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To: Third Wheel

And denial is a river in Egypt...


11 posted on 04/30/2021 5:40:34 AM PDT by EBH (Republics are only meant for a good and moral people. 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: EBH

VIDEO: Burials and funerals take place at night as Brazil’s COVID death toll soars to records high

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-30/burials-take-place-at-night-as-brazils-covid-death-toll-soars/13324038


12 posted on 04/30/2021 5:43:42 AM PDT by EBH (Republics are only meant for a good and moral people. 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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Brazil buries COVID dead at night as cemeteries struggle to keep up
By ReutersApril 1, 2021 | 2:28pm | Updated
https://nypost.com/2021/04/01/brazil-buries-covid-dead-at-night-as-cemeteries-struggle-to-keep-up/


13 posted on 04/30/2021 5:46:09 AM PDT by EBH (Republics are only meant for a good and moral people. 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: EBH

Actually, it’s “the Nile River”. But you go ahead and believe whatever you wish because you are the one living in denile.


14 posted on 04/30/2021 5:55:48 AM PDT by Third Wheel
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To: EBH
ABC and Reuters. No chance of propaganda from those sources, right? Saw yesterday that 60% of our new Covid cases are in vaccinated people. So, are they symptomatic? How did they come to be tested?

We have been lied to by our governments, and our governments have no problem engineering deaths in order to take control. It seems to me that the Democrats have no worries about future elections, as they are now turning on the Black population and trying to spend us into oblivion. All the old constraints have vanished. What do they think they have in store for us next?

15 posted on 04/30/2021 5:57:06 AM PDT by binreadin
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To: EBH

The PTB still have it in for Bolsonaro, I see...

Brazil has a ton of problems.

WuFlu is the least of them.


16 posted on 04/30/2021 6:00:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: EBH

The death rate in the 70s was way higher than now even at the height of a scamdemic.


17 posted on 04/30/2021 6:12:05 AM PDT by USAF80
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To: EBH

China lost at minimum 2 million people, at maximum 30 million.


18 posted on 04/30/2021 6:32:02 AM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: EBH

It odd that the countries with conservative heads of state have had covid the worst. United States, Brazil and India. Why??????? Yes I know we don’t have trump anymore as President.


19 posted on 04/30/2021 6:51:08 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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occam’s razor. The CCP targeted those countries with it’s most contagious form of the bio weapon they cooked up. They also had basically from the start a 50% effectiveness dead virus inoculation that they used on their own people and troops.


20 posted on 04/30/2021 12:12:12 PM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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