This morning, @BBCr4today had a piece on how badly Brazil had managed the pandemic, featuring a doctor bemoaning that they had never had a national lockdown "like you did in the UK". No challenge from the presenter of course …
… Brazil has seen a big increase in deaths in recent weeks, but no mention of the fact that their cumulative rate is still below hard-lockdown Peru and way lower than lockdown UK ... 
… and no mention that the 7-day average of new reported cases in Brazil have been decreasing since 27 March, whilst the estimated R rate has been decreasing since mid-March ...
... The @BBCr4today piece also criticised the slow vaccine roll out in Brazil. Yes, much lower than UK or Chile but no mention of the fact that Brazil is at the same level as Argentina and way ahead of some other South American countries like Peru ...
... and no mention of the fact that Chile have just introduced yet *more* lockdown measures due to their fast-growing cases (though not deaths, yet at least). theguardian.com/global-develop…
Lots of interesting data to report from South America & no doubt some criticisms of Brazilian policy are valid (as with every other country).
But why did @BBCr4today give us such a one-dimensional piece, pushing the pro-lockdown agenda yet again?
But why did @BBCr4today give us such a one-dimensional piece, pushing the pro-lockdown agenda yet again?
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