Brazil Will Have People Dying at Home within Four Weeks, Says Epidemiologist
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – “We are going to see people dying out of hospitals [because there are not enough intensive care beds],” denounces the epidemiologist Ivan França Junior.
Ivan França Junior, an epidemiologist at the University of São Paulo’s School of Public Health, told The Guardian that if Jair Bolsonaro continues to encourage society to sabotage social distancing against the coronavirus, Brazil will experience “painful days,” similar to Italy, in a matter of weeks.
“We will see people dying out of hospitals [because there are not enough intensive care beds], people dying at home because our ambulance service will not be able to cope,” he said.
“Projections suggest this will happen within three or four weeks, and then it will be too late. People will flip out and lock themselves in the house of their own accord”.
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