Posted on 04/23/2021 6:44:00 AM PDT by EBH
Expert says global leaders must not ignore Brazil, which is ‘brewing variants left, right and centre’
As a coronavirus variant traced to the Brazilian Amazon marauded through Peru’s coastal capital last month, Rommel Heredia raced to his local hospital to seek help for his brother, mother and father.
“I said goodbye and promised I’d come back to take them home,” said the 47-year-old PE teacher, his voice muffled by two black masks pulled tightly over his face.
Heredia was unable to fulfil his pledge. Three days later, his 52-year-old brother, Juan Carlos, died as he waited for a bed in intensive care at the Rebagliati public hospital in Lima. The next day he lost his 80-year-old mother, Vilma, who suffered a fatal brain inflammation doctors blamed on Covid-19. Four days later his father, Jorge, passed away.
“The truth is, the pain’s just too great. I can’t come to terms with it,” Heredia said on Sunday as Peru suffered its heaviest day of Covid losses and fears mounted over how new variants might have rejuvenated the pandemic that has already killed more than 3 million people worldwide.
Ester Sabino, a Brazilian scientist who is tracking the P1 variant’s spread, said phylogenic analysis suggested it had emerged in the second half of November somewhere near Manaus, a sultry riverside metropolis in Brazil’s Amazon. Weeks later, Manaus made global headlines after its hospitals were overwhelmed by a sudden deluge of patients for which they were catastrophically unprepared. “What we’re watching is a complete massacre,” one local health worker told the Guardian at the time, as hospitals ran out of oxygen and patients asphyxiated.
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The Crematoriums can be seen from Space.
Were they vaccinated?
If only they had made it to the U.S. border...
They heading into their fall weather.
No. It seems the vaccine rollout there is very slow and I think they were only able to get the Sinovac(?) from ...China...which is only 50% effective.
It is spreading swiftly out of Brazil and Peru is hard hit as well.
Are they welding people into their homes? If not, there’s your problem.
I agree.
Close the airports. Don't accept a negative PCR test.
What happens in Brazil (and India/Pakistan) stays in Brazil (and India/Pakistan)
Brazil will receive the first vaccines against COVID-19 through the COVAX Mechanism this Sunday (March 21)
https://www.unicef.org/lac/en/press-releases/brazil-will-receive-first-vaccines-against-covid-19-through-covax-mechanism-sunday
Don’t disagree with you.
In fact, we need to close that damn southern border of ours. People from South America are not stupid, they are going to try and get out before they get this deadly variant.
But of course Nancy and Gropey would welcome them here with open arms and every kind of freebie they can come up with.
And to suggest anything else would be racissss.
No they are under 5%
Oh the humanity! What blatant lies we hear every day.
And giant mounds of bodies? It’s gotta be like chiraq after a bad weekend.
Does Brazil do a lot of business with the Red Chinese, by any chance?
Testing the limits of China and Brazil’s partnership
Harold TrinkunasMonday, July 20, 2020
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/testing-the-limits-of-china-and-brazils-partnership/
Brazil is China’s most important economic and political partner in South America, as well as a key participant in the Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) grouping of emerging powers that China increasingly leads. When it comes to global aspirations, China and Brazil have historically been in sync on their critiques of the liberal international order, if not on their preferred remedies.
I understand Brazil received the China Vaccine. I think a lot of Latin America received the China Vaccine.
It’s so effective Biden is migrating it to the US. Then, when it gets to the border he’s bussing and flying it all over the country.
All of this reminds one of the movie “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”. Perhaps we should modernize the phrase into How I stopped worrying and love the Covid”....perhaps Fauci is “Dr. Strangelove”, although I always thought that it was more like “Dr. Faustus”, as in a “Faustian Bargain”..
The technical name for this mutant strain is SARS-Trump-20-(racist).
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