Re:Coronavirus: Hard-hit Brazil removes data amid rising dea...
by cm2187 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @10:42AM
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You could add to the list a very different demography than western countries or china. The % of the population over 60 is half what it is in the US. Age being by far the primary driver for the severity of the disease, it is not unereasonable to expect that Brazil will be hit less hard than western countries.
Re:Coronavirus: Hard-hit Brazil removes data amid rising dea...
by Kaze404 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @12:31PM
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Brazil isn't a western country?
Re:Coronavirus: Hard-hit Brazil removes data amid rising dea...
by marcosdumay on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:53PM
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US people think "west" is composed of North America and half of Europe.
Manaus: the consensus in the general population seemed to be that the city was (1) too remote for COVID to arrive (2) heat and sun would stifle it and (3) their endemic diseases (malaria, dengue etc) were worse anyways so who cares? People seemed to mostly ignore the first lockdown measures.
Now, maybe ~30% of the people we know personally in the city have had COVID. Overall, it seems like there is a lot of death but we stopped following closely because it was too painful.
Minas Gerais: impressive lockdown in March. Small cities in the interior quarantined immediately, screening checkpoints with nurses everywhere. I have no idea how things turned out there but my guess is pretty well.
Return to USA: we bailed out of Brazil as soon as we could due to the lockdowns. The only sign in the Houston airport that COVID existed at that point was a small sign warning travelers from Wuhan to self-quarantine. Embarrassing.