Sao Paulo, April 15, 2021 – The Brazil is overwhelmed by the pandemic Covid, from the hospitals of Rio de Janeiro comes the dramatic testimony of health workers forced to intubate patients Covid awake for the lack of sedatives in hospitals. The country has passed the 360 thousand victims since the beginning of the health emergency: 3,459 deaths and 73,513 infections have been recorded in the last 24 hours. The total toll rises to 361,884 victims, and 13,673,507 confirmed infections.
In the state of St. Paul, the most affected by the coronavirus in Brazil, despite the vaccination campaign continuing at a fast pace and there is a lockdown, the number of deaths and infections keep going up: between 4 and 10 April 5,657 victims, triple that of the first wave last July. The problem is the Brazilian variant Coronavirus P1, responsible for this wave of infections and deaths in the country, and which worries the international community. According to Brazilian scientists who study it it is changing into forms that would make it capable of evade antibodies.
The Fiocruz Institute of Public Health has found mutations in spike protein variants, the one that is used to infect cells. These mutations could make the virus more resistant to vaccines. “We believe it is another escape mechanism that the virus is creating,” Fiocruz commented.
There is a lack of sedatives
There are no more sedatives in the hospitals of Rio de Janeiro: a nurse from the Albert Schweitzer hospital in Realengo, in the eastern part of Rio, gave a dramatic testimony at the G1 site. The woman told of some Covid patients in serious condition intubated while awake, with their hands tied to the bed, due to the lack of drugs. 118 Covid patients are hospitalized in the hospital in question, of which 40 are in intensive care. “They are awake, without sedatives, intubated, with their hands tied to the bed and begging us not to let them die,” said the nurse, who wanted to remain anonymous.
San Paolo, record of deaths
Vaccinations, strict confinement measures, they are not needed: in the most affected state of Brazil people continue to die: the week between 4 and 10 April was the one with the highest number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, 5,657 victims. Virtually triple the 1,945 deaths in the week with the highest number of deaths occurring in the first wave, in mid-July. The richest and most populous state in Brazil has the record of deaths (84,380) and infections (2,667,241) caused by the disease. What about vaccinations? In Brazil they have been administered so far more than 32 million vaccine doses, of which over eight million in the state of Sao Paulo alone. The most popular vaccine is the CoronaVac, produced in Sao Paulo by the Butantan Institute in collaboration with the laboratory cinese Sinovac.
Bolsonaro: Brazil is a powder keg
The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, targeted by the public opinion for the negationist management of the pandemic and under investigation by the Senate, to some sympathizers in Brasilia today he said that the country “is at the limit”, and that it awaits “a signal from the people” to “act “. Brazil is a “powder keg” ready to explode due to the social problems generated by the coronavirus pandemic. “Brazil is at the limit, people say I have to act … I’m waiting for a signal from the people because hunger, misery and unemployment are there for all to see, only those who don’t want to see them don’t see them.” Today the first federal deputy died in Brasilia, Josè Carlos Schiavinato, of the Progressive Party (PP, conservative), was 66 years old and had been hospitalized for 40 days in the Syrian-Lebanese hospital in the capital. His wife, Marlene Schiavinato, had died on March 12, also from Covid. Three senators from Covdi have already died: Major Olimpio, Arolde de Oliveira and Josè Maranhao.
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