Brazil: Inequality and Catastrophe

Alfredo Saad-Filho
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Alfredo Saad-Filho: King’s College London

Chapter Chapter 10 in The Age of Crisis, 2021, pp 135-149 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The course of COVID-19COVID-19 was exceptionally tragic in Brazil, arguably the country with the worst pandemicresponseworst pandemic response on EarthEarth, the only one where the governmentgovernments not only neglected its basic duties but actively undermined measures that could have contained the pandemic and protected the population, and the greatest experiment in ‘herd immunityherd immunity’ in modern times. The death toll in Brazil reached 1,000 on 12 April 2020, 10,000 on 11 May, 100,000 on 10 August, 200,000 on 9 January 2021 and 400,000 on 1 May.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-81608-7_10

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