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Coronavirus In Brazil Leads To Mass Graves, Fears Country Could Become Worst-Hit In World: 'We Are In A State Of Utter Disaster'
Fox News ^ | 5-2-2020 | carolina Torres

Posted on 05/02/2020 8:59:51 AM PDT by blam

“What we are seeing are scenes from a horror movie."

Those words came from Artur Virgilio, the mayor of Manaus, about the coronavirus crisis developing in the middle of the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil.

The city had a record number of burials in April -- about 100 a day, or triple the average -- forcing authorities to do many en masse in improvised cemeteries.

“We aren’t in a state of emergency. We are in a state of utter disaster, like a country that is at war but has already lost," Virgilio said.

The city's public health system has already collapsed, with 100% of intensive-care beds occupied and hundreds of people left untreated.

Relatives of victims report that burials have been carried out collectively, with some people left not knowing if their loved one was, in fact, buried.

In some cases, corpses were placed on top of each other in graves, according to reports. The official cause of death is often listed as "unknown" or "severe acute respiratory failure," which experts say is contributing to a massive under-count of coronavirus cases.

Between April 21 and April 28, the government reported 118 confirmed coronavirus deaths in Manaus. But in that same week, more than 200 people were buried due without a determined cause of death, in addition to 395 due to respiratory failure or suspected coronavirus.

According to one projection, the number of burials in Manaus may reach 4,200 later this month..

The crisis in Manaus could be a sign of things to come for the whole country.

Although conditions in São Paulo, the largest city in South America, and Rio de Janeiro, are not as dire, experts warn that the country faces a coronavirus surge similar to those that devasted Italy, Spain and parts of the United States.

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KEYWORDS: brazil; coronavirus; disaster; massgraves
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To: Robert DeLong

So, you’re saying that these 6,434 deaths, are NOT triple their usual death rate, for time period of China Flu, as the article states (for the one city)?

I have no idea what Brazil’s normal/average death rate (per day, etc) is.


41 posted on 05/02/2020 10:54:50 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Manaus is a city of nearly 2 million. Not a “village”


42 posted on 05/02/2020 10:58:13 AM PDT by BohDaThone
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To: blam

“Coronavirus In Brazil Leads To Mass Graves, Fears Country Could Become Worst-Hit In World: ‘We Are In A State Of Utter Disaster’”

Well...of course that’s what you say if you want the USA to send you pallets of cash.


43 posted on 05/02/2020 10:58:23 AM PDT by moovova
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To: null and void

“Not wanting to bring anything home to my nonageneraian mom does not make me fearful, it makes me cautious.”

Name-calling is the new substitute for thinking and rational discussion.


44 posted on 05/02/2020 10:59:30 AM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: DallasBiff

“Fearpers” is liberal slander tactics.


45 posted on 05/02/2020 11:01:09 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: blam

Why are there no pics/videos of people keeling over and piles of bodies on instagram? There were chinese virus videos of this and takes a lot to get those out of china.


46 posted on 05/02/2020 11:03:38 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
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To: metmom
“Fearpers” is liberal slander tactics.

No fearpers on freerepublic are akin to the screaming bats on MSNBC.

47 posted on 05/02/2020 11:09:19 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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To: DallasBiff

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Ad-Hominem-Abusive


48 posted on 05/02/2020 11:11:10 AM PDT by cgbg (New poll: post elderly voters like Biden's experience as Wilson's VP fighting the Spanish Flu.)
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To: BohDaThone
"Manaus is a city of nearly 2 million. Not a “village”"

Thanks. I noticed that after I made my comment. The word "amazon" initially made me think it was some sort backwater village.
49 posted on 05/02/2020 11:13:31 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: cgbg

You can live in fear all you want, but don’t include me.


50 posted on 05/02/2020 11:27:21 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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To: Magic Fingers

I’ve noticed that :- (


51 posted on 05/02/2020 11:28:52 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: blam
The crisis in Manaus could be a sign of things to come for the whole country.

Manaus is a very large population city, way up the Amazon River in the middle of nowhere.

It is visited by cruise ships and air traffic .

It could have gotten the virus from those air and cruise ship sources.

-Tom

52 posted on 05/02/2020 11:32:14 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: blam

Don’t they have a mass grave in NY right now?


53 posted on 05/02/2020 11:33:22 AM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: null and void

It’s still its winter season. So it is colder than in its summer season.


54 posted on 05/02/2020 11:37:14 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: null and void

Hollywood celebrities kill the virus, don’t you know?


55 posted on 05/02/2020 11:37:49 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- “First thing I’d do is repeal those Trump tax cuts.” (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Jane Long

No I am not saying that, I’m just saying that the death toll, so far, is not that extreme.


56 posted on 05/02/2020 11:38:14 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: mo

Yeah well that can count me out. I don’t even get a flu shot. Every year the doctor tries to get me to take one, and I say no thank you. 8>)


57 posted on 05/02/2020 11:40:33 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: SeekAndFind
If Hydroxychloroquine does work as a prophylaxis, I would expect them to be giving it to their citizens. Either they did and it doesn’t work, or they did not ( that is, if the alarming numbers in this article are believable ).

It will be interesting to see how the population taking the Zelenko regimen compares to those who don't.  Ukraine are also having 8 million using just Hydroxychloroquine on weekly intervals (may have various intervals/populations/dosages) as a prophylaxis.  He is also working with Stephan Hahn of the FDA.  Zelenko indicated that a paper with meta data is ready for review.  So, possible we will have Hydroxychloroquine along with Gilead's Remdesivir approved by the FDA for SARS-CoV-2.

58 posted on 05/02/2020 12:15:11 PM PDT by Silent One
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To: SeekAndFind; Silent One; null and void; blam; PA Engineer; RummyChick; Jane Long; dfwgator; ...

On about March 21, and again April 12, Dr. Zalenko sent information to the President about his apparently successful treatment using Hydroxychloroquine and zinc against the virus and Azithromycin as a chaser to prevent bacterial pneumonia. For some odd reason (and one Congress should perhaps ask Fauci about), all the President and others have said is HCQ, NOTHING about the zinc. HCQ opens the cell, and zinc goes into the cell and prevents the virus from reproducing. So anyone who uses only the HCQ is setting themselves up for failure. In fact have just had a trial of HCQ on veterans at a VA hospital. They results are less that promising. SO WHY THE PERSISTENT FAILURE TO USE ZINC???

Meanwhile everyone is talking about the vaccine IN THE FUTURE. Bill Gates is financing 7 companies fast tracking development of different vaccines. How much money can be made with a successful vaccine (which might have to be renewed yearly like the flu vaccine), and how much money does a treatment with HCQ with zinc sulfate cost (if it is actually a successful treatment). https://internetprotocol.co/hype-news/2020/04/14/a-detailed-coronavirus-treatment-plan-from-dr-zelenko/

I decided to check the prices of HCQ and zinc. Zalenko recommends:
HCQ, 200 mg., 2 per day for 5 days. Bargain generics cost around 37cents a 200 mg. tablet ($3.70)
Zinc Sulfate, 220 mg., 1 per day for 5 days. Prices for 220 mg. tablets ranging from 6 to 17cents (30 to 85 cents)
POOR BIG PHARMA—never going to get rich at those prices.


59 posted on 05/02/2020 1:55:50 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
I take 25MG of zinc daily.

Zinc

General: Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) quantities of zinc have been established for boys and men age 14 and older, 11 mg/day; women 19 and older, 8 mg/day; pregnant women 14 to 18, 13 mg/day; pregnant women 19 and older, 11 mg/day; lactating women 14 to 18, 14 mg/day; lactating women 19 and older, 12 mg/day. Tolerable Upper Intake Levels (UL) of zinc for people who are not receiving zinc under medical supervision: adults 19 years and older (including pregnancy and lactation), 40 mg/day. The typical North American male consumes about 13 mg/day of dietary zinc; women consume approximately 9 mg/day. Different salt forms provide different amounts of elemental zinc. Zinc sulfate contains 23% elemental zinc; 220 mg zinc sulfate contains 50 mg zinc. Zinc gluconate contains 14.3% elemental zinc; 10 mg zinc gluconate contains 1.43 mg zinc.

60 posted on 05/02/2020 2:06:57 PM PDT by blam
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