https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/politica-brasil/exclusivo-...
https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/noticia/2021/08/26/cpi-rec...
Early into the pandemic, a health insurance company ran a fraudulent study to show that HCQ was effective at treating COVID. The patients were enrolled without their consent, the data was manipulated to remove people who died from the statistics, and doctors were pressured to prescribe HCQ and other medications that did not have proof that they are effective.
This fraud was intended to promote a political agenda of mass contamination. The people running the fraudulent study were in contact with high-ranking officials in the Bolsonaro government, by means of a so-called "shadow cabinet" of pro-HCQ doctors and businessmen. This shadow-cabinet bypassed the experts inside the health ministry, in order to promote the idea that the best way to get through the pandemic was to allow it to spread as fast as possible, and try to use HCQ to treat people when they inevitably got infected.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil...