Once the virus hits the favelas there’s no stopping it. Even the police are afraid to go there.
So far the virus has effected lighter skinned peoples far, far more than darker skinned folks worldwide. Brazil’s upper classes are much whiter than the average for the country. I wonder if that could also have something to do with it or if those sort of differences are just happenstance. Perhaps it has something to do with blood type differences the Chinese have been studying in regard to the virus or something to do with melanin. Or maybe they’re right and whites and East Asians are just more likely to travel internationally.
Half of the cases in the USA would not exist if it weren’t for NYC. If you want to be totally safe from epidemics, no one should travel.