Thread by @beattrice_

🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 BRASIL: starting a new collapse foretold ⁉
after BQ.1** Sars-Cov2 has taken off in mid-July

🎯🎯🎯CAMPINAS/São Paulo going back to Emergency Hospitals ["Hospitais de Campanha"]
like in early pandemic times in 2020
as Public ICU beds🛌overwhelmed
▶▶▶100% occupied

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🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 BRASIL: starting a new collapse foretold ⁉

And the country lost again [and again]
a window of opportunity to start
a Public Health management
as Ministry of Health data has already showed BQ.1** in 10 states on Nov 18th
Rio de Janeiro
São Paulo
Amazonas ...

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🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 BRASIL: starting a new collapse foretold ⁉

🎯CAMPINAS/São Paulo
WITH📈increased positivity 28%
WITHOUT ▶ masks😷mandate back

City Covid Committee did not follow Science advice
and did not approve #BringBackMasks mandate
unlike Covid Committee of local University

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🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 BRASIL: starting a new collapse foretold ⁉

Facing vaccine-escaping variants
▶masks mandate back on Nov 16th
at University of Campinas UNICAMP

after📈positivity 17% to 34%/1wk
Covid Committee approved 2 mandates
🔴masks in closed spaces [PFF2/surgical]
🔴2 boosters

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🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 BRASIL: starting a new collapse foretold ⁉

▶ an increased📈number of cases
+120% throughout the country in October [22 states]

+ 740% Maranhão +575% Sergipe +488% Rondônia
+ 330% Rio de Janeiro +229% Paraíba
[Ministry of Health - November 11th]

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🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 BRASIL: starting a new collapse foretold ⁉

📈cases +2.350% Piauí +294% Roraima
+145% E. Santo +119% Amapá

📈deaths +800% Bahia +700% Goiás
+449% São Paulo +200% E. Santo
[Oct 18th]
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🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 BRASIL: starting a new collapse foretold ⁉

After a jump to 17% positivity last Oct

🎯Nov 22nd: 16 states📈deaths
daily cases Rio de Janeiro 12.394 Minas Gerais 4.389
🎯Nov 23rd: 18 states📈deaths
daily cases Rio de Janeiro 6.299 MG 3.960
São Paulo 2.821

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🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 BRASIL: starting a new collapse foretold ⁉

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome [SRAG]/COVID
▶ highest activity cases
100% São Paulo Rio de Janeiro Paraíba Pernambuco Alagoas

▶ highest activity deaths
100% São Paulo 98% Rio de Janeiro
[FIOCRUZ/Nov19th]

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🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 BRASIL: starting a new collapse foretold ⁉

Facing vaccine-escaping variants
▶masks mandate back on Nov 17th
at Escola Paulista de Medicina/UNIFESP

Covid Committee approved 2 mandates

🔴masks in closed spaces
🔴2 boosters

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🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 BRASIL: starting a new collapse foretold ⁉

🎯CAMPINAS/SP watching the game with the VIRUS
🔽
24 hrs after announcing the 1st retour to
Covid Emergency Hospitals
with ICU beds 100% occupied
City Hall organizes a crowd ...to watch Football!!!
without masks, of course‼‼‼