Thread by @DrEricDing

I weep for the people of Brazil 🇧🇷 — #COVID19 deaths now at all time high under the strain of #P1 variant that has surged in recent month, and its President hell bent on doing nothing and muzzling scientists. Brazil may soon be facing a humanitarian crisis. World needs to act. 🧵

2) The crisis that looms for Brazil 🇧🇷 is almost indescribable. Many doctors in Brazil are screaming the word “genocide” at the level of neglect and willful efforts to block anything that will stop the pandemic.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1368782323378950147

3) Here was the situation last week in one the **wealthiest** regions in Brazil. Look how hospitalizations and deaths have taken off with the rise of the #P1 variant that is more infectious and also has some properties of reinfection.

4) the situation in Brazil is approaching cataclysmic, and still can get much much worse. But it’s health care system is already almost maxed out.

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1368135341916454914

5) Multiple doctors in Brazil have actively written to me that it is an “extermination project” and that scientists have been essentially deemed enemies of the state by Bolsonaro. It’s that bad in Brazil. #StandWithBrazil

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1368784165475389441

6) “Brazil is becoming an enormous Manaus”. These stats below are already out of date by a week.

Figure by @fiocruz_en.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1367148840596475920

7) how it started... and how it’s going now... it’s horrid.