“It’s an organic Fukushima”: dramatic alert from experts for deaths in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO.- The Sudden increase in deaths from coronavirus in Brazil It will soon surpass the worst of a record wave in January in the United States, far exceeding the average of 3,000 deaths per day, according to scientific projections, because infections with new variants overwhelm hospitals.

Brazil’s total coronavirus death toll is second highest in the world, with around 333,000according to data from the Department of Health, which compares to more than 555,000 deaths in the United States.

With his the health care system is on the verge of collapse, Brazil could exceed the total death toll in the United States, despite two-thirds of the population, two experts told Reuters.

“It is a nuclear reactor which has set off a chain reaction and which is out of control. It’s an organic Fukushima “, warned Miguel Nicolelis, Brazilian doctor and professor at Duke University who follows the spread of the virus.

President Jair Bolsonaro rejected the use of masks and the lockdowns that public health experts deem necessary. The country has not rushed to seek vaccines unlike the rest of the world, which has slowed down its national immunization program.

With weak measures failing to tackle contagion, Covid-19 cases and deaths in Brazil are piling up faster than ever. On the flip side, a massive vaccination campaign in the United States is rapidly slowing down what has been the world’s deadliest epidemic.

Nicolelis and Christovam Barcellos, researcher at the Brazilian medical institute Fiocruz, have Independent estimates suggest that Brazil could surpass the United States in both overall deaths and in the record number of average deaths per day.

Brazil could break US record for seven-day average deaths next week, as projected by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. The US average for daily deaths peaked at 3,285 in January.

The IHME’s forecast does not extend beyond July 1, when it estimates that Brazil could reach 563,000 deaths, against 609,000 victims expected by then in the United States.

the state of San Pablo -the most populous in Brazil- today broke a new record of deaths from Covid-19, registering 1,389 deaths in the last 24 hours.

Reuters Agency

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