With its top-notch immunization program and strong pharmaceutical industry, Brazil should be well-placed to bring the pandemic to an end there. But political infighting, haphazard planning and a rising anti-vaccine movement have left the nation without a clear vaccination plan, our reporters found. Above, a vaccine trial in São Paulo earlier this month.
Its citizens now have no sense of when a vaccine will come. The coronavirus has brought the public health system to its knees and crushed the economy. “They’re playing with lives,” one epidemiologist said. “It’s borderline criminal.”
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