How Brazil’s President turned the country into a global epicenter of COVID-19

In this manuscript, we point out that the federal government headed by President Bolsonaro has pursued a political agenda that contributed to the spread of COVID-19, transforming the country into a major repository for SARS-CoV-2 and its variants, thus representing a risk for worldwide containment e...

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Autores principales: Ferrante, Lucas, Duczmal, Luiz, Steinmetz, Wilhelm Alexander, Almeida, Alexandre Celestino Leite, Leão, Jeremias, Vassão, Ruth Camargo, Tupinambás, Unaí, Fearnside, Philip Martin
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Palgrave Macmillan UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8393776/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34453095
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41271-021-00302-0
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author Ferrante, Lucas
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description In this manuscript, we point out that the federal government headed by President Bolsonaro has pursued a political agenda that contributed to the spread of COVID-19, transforming the country into a major repository for SARS-CoV-2 and its variants, thus representing a risk for worldwide containment efforts. Furthermore his actions are also weakening democratic institutions, which could counter his political agenda, effectively facilitating the spread of COVID-19. Thus, the perpetuation of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil is due to human behaviour factors, especially high-level public decision makers.
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spelling pubmed-83937762021-08-27 How Brazil’s President turned the country into a global epicenter of COVID-19 Ferrante, Lucas Duczmal, Luiz Steinmetz, Wilhelm Alexander Almeida, Alexandre Celestino Leite Leão, Jeremias Vassão, Ruth Camargo Tupinambás, Unaí Fearnside, Philip Martin J Public Health Policy Viewpoint In this manuscript, we point out that the federal government headed by President Bolsonaro has pursued a political agenda that contributed to the spread of COVID-19, transforming the country into a major repository for SARS-CoV-2 and its variants, thus representing a risk for worldwide containment efforts. Furthermore his actions are also weakening democratic institutions, which could counter his political agenda, effectively facilitating the spread of COVID-19. Thus, the perpetuation of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil is due to human behaviour factors, especially high-level public decision makers. Palgrave Macmillan UK 2021-08-27 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8393776/ /pubmed/34453095 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41271-021-00302-0 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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