Brazil could have stopped 400,000 Covid deaths with better government response, expert says
Epidemiologist behind study on scale of disaster says Jair Bolsonaro’s government is ‘entirely’ responsible
Brazil could have saved 400,000 lives if the country had implemented stricter social distancing measures and launched a vaccination programme earlier, according to an eminent epidemiologist who is leading the first study to quantify the scale of the country’s Covid disaster.
Such policies would have prevented 80% of the half a million Covid deaths registered in one of the hardest-hit countries in the world, said Pedro Hallal, a professor at the Federal University of Pelotas.
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