Worldometers - widely accepted for its numbers and data - doesn't show this. Maybe "Fohla De S. Paulo" (english version), whatever the hell that is, knows better.
Worldmeters does not provide statistics on deaths per million in recent days. Only deaths per million over the entire COVID timeframe.
Ah, "recent days". I'm sure if we pick a specific time period we can make any argument work. Quite disingenuous, but who cares, right? What matters is how they've done over the whole crisis. The rest is just Figures never lie, but liars figure.
If everything is going to hell over the past month it is very pertinent. Who cares what happened 12 months ago in Italy when making comparisons.
Perhaps. It could also be something specific to the seasonality of the virus in that country. Remember how you guys were telling us how Florida was going to be a 800 people a day dying by end of August or September because July had 200 per day? Back then if we were to look at Florida vs. just about every other state, Florida would have been a disaster. But then every other state essentially got what Florida had in July later on. And then you could have said all the other states were the disaster. The virus has peaks and valleys and they don't come all at the same time world wide. So you have to use a longer time frame. Unless you're looking to reinforce a narrative. Usualname tried to tell us how we had to consider New York without the nursing home scandal days because "we didn't know then what we know now". Well isn't that convenient. the only way to have an honest discussion is to look at apples to apples as much as is possible, and the only way to do THAT is to not cherry pick data. Looking at a given month is a data point, but that's all it is. You can't draw any worthwhile conclusions. Another example is the people who fight constantly over the stock market in the 100% up room to go thread. One day when the market is rocketing, the bulls laugh at the bears. The next day when it crashes the bears are proven right. Pointless.
Just another another day in the no-lockdown paradise envisioned by the natural herd immunity advocates... Brazil suffers worst run of daily deaths since coronavirus pandemic began https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-brazil-numbers-idUSL1N2LA2X3 Brazil reported 2,216 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, the third day in a row that fatalities exceeded 2,000 in the worst run of deaths since the pandemic began a year ago. The health ministry also reported 85,663 new coronavirus infections, its second highest number for one day, as the pandemic surges in South American country driven by a highly contagious new local variant. The World Health Organization said the state of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil is very concerning and serious action needs to be taken. Brazil has now registered 11,363,380 cases in all, passing India as the country with the second worst outbreak. The official death toll has risen to 275,105 in the world’s second-deadliest outbreak outside the United States. On Wednesday, Brazil had a record toll of 2,286 dead, followed on Thursday by 2,233 more deaths, the health ministry said. Far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who has minimized the gravity of the virus and said he will not have a vaccination, is facing mounting criticism for failing to secure a timely supply of doses for the populace, with less than 3% vaccinated so far. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that everyone in Brazil should take the situation seriously, adding that neighboring countries could be affected. “Unless serious measures are taken the upward trend now flooding the health system and becoming more than its capacity will result in more deaths,” he said at a news conference in Geneva.
The neighbors no longer want to put up with no-lockdown paradise Brazil... 'Covid-19 superspreader' Brazil shunned by 'nervous' neighbours in Latin America https://www.hindustantimes.com/worl...ghbours-in-latin-america-101615648244002.html Peru has closed flights to and from the country, Uruguay is sending extra doses of vaccines to its border towns and Chile now sends anyone arriving from Brazil to special quarantine hotels. Colombia, meanwhile, has banned flights in and out of Brazil. For the rest of Latin America, Brazil has always been a nation apart -- a huge Portuguese-speaking powerhouse and trendsetter with sexy beaches and bewitching music. These days, it’s something else entirely: a Covid-spreading threat fast becoming a kind of regional leper colony. Leading the world in daily deaths and the source of a worrying Amazonian variant that’s more contagious and possibly deadlier, Brazil is a cause of deep anxiety for world health officials and its neighbors, who are barring their gates. Peru has closed flights to and from the country, Uruguay is sending extra doses of vaccines to its border towns and Chile now sends anyone arriving from Brazil to special quarantine hotels. Colombia has not only banned flights in and out of Brazil but also to its own city of Leticia on the border, stranding hundreds of tourists since the end of January. “It feels like a jail without bars,” said Gladys Cuellar, who with her husband Antonio owns Gava’s Amazonas, a fast food restaurant in Leticia. A town of 50,000, Leticia had a death toll last year almost three times higher than the national average. It lives off tourism and most of its food and supplies come from Brazil and Peru. “It’s a difficult decision to make,” said Julian Fernandez, director of epidemiology at Colombia’s health ministry, of the closure. While it’s virtually impossible to stop the Brazilian strain from spreading into the more populous interior of Colombia, “we are trying to reduce the volume and speed at which it enters, to give us time to advance vaccinations.” With 50 million inhabitants, Colombia has only administered some 600,000 doses. It’s paying special attention to its Amazon belt next to Brazil, offering shots to everyone over 18 in urban areas. In the rest of the country, other than health workers, only people over 80 are getting their first jab. “It’s a difficult decision to make,” said Julian Fernandez, director of epidemiology at Colombia’s health ministry, of the closure. While it’s virtually impossible to stop the Brazilian strain from spreading into the more populous interior of Colombia, “we are trying to reduce the volume and speed at which it enters, to give us time to advance vaccinations.” Global health officials have been expressing deep alarm over the risk posed to the region by Brazil while 17 countries have banned entries from it. The first week of March marked the worst days of the pandemic yet in the country, with more than 420,000 new cases and 10,000 deaths. Home to less than 3% of the world’s population, it accounts for about 10% of Covid cases and deaths. Vaccinations are moving slowly. While some governors and mayors have imposed curfews and on rare occasions strict lockdowns, interstate travel remains fluid and international airports open. Even in places with tighter restrictions, enforcement is rare. Its president Jair Bolsonaro has long insisted that the virus is given too much attention, that masks and distancing are for “sissies,” and life must go on. “We’re very much concerned about Brazil,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization. “And about Brazil’s neighbors -- almost the whole of Latin America. That means if Brazil is not serious then it will continue to affect all the neighborhood there and beyond. So this is not just about Brazil.” Uruguay, which closed its international borders early in the pandemic, increased patrols along its 620-mile dryland border with Brazil last year. It sent extra doses from its first shipment of 192,000 Coronavac shots to those cities. The absence of a hard border separating its biggest frontier town Rivera from Brazilian sister city, Santana do Livramento, has driven new cases there to the country’s highest in the past week due to the flow of residents and day shoppers. “Today our main problem without a doubt is what is happening in Brazil,” Rivera Province deputy governor Jose Mazzoni said by telephone. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said this month that 10 cases of the Brazilian strain have been detected and “we have to cut transmission channels.” Argentina is limiting flights from several countries, including Brazil. And while Chile hasn’t gone as far as Peru and Colombia, it is requiring all passengers who’ve been in Brazil in the last 14 days to go to a “residencia sanitaria” where they will have a Covid test. If positive, the person stays. If negative, they have to do 10 days of quarantine at home. In coming days, Colombia will carry out a “humanitarian flight” that will fly tourists stranded in Leticia back to Bogota. Meanwhile Gladys -- the restaurant owner in Leticia -- is looking forward to getting vaccinated. “We’re like Colombia’s lab mice,” she said. “We’ve been isolated and now we’ll get to see how things go with the Brazil strain.”
What's Portuguese for "This guy's an idiot". Bolsonaro opposes social distancing as Brazil sets record 90,000 COVID-19 cases https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-cases-idUSKBN2B92ZA Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday said he was happy that supporters have been staging anti-social distancing protests, on the same day as the country registered more than 90,000 new COVID-19 cases for the first time. The infections record came one day after Brazil posted a separate record for deaths related to the virus, more than 2,800 in one day. “Logically, I was happy,” Bolsonaro said of the protests in remarks broadcast on social media. “They show that the people are alive ... we want our freedom, we want the world to respect our constitution.” In recent days, Bolsonaro nominated a cardiologist to become the country’s fourth health minister since the pandemic started. Replacing an active-duty military general, the change came as experts worldwide criticized the spread of the virus in Brazil, and as Bolsonaro downplayed the severity of the disease. Brazil now has 11,693,838 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Deaths on Wednesday rose by 2,648, the second highest tally after the record reported Tuesday, and now total 284,775.
Let's check-in and see how things are going in the no-lockdown paradise of Brazil. A country whose COVID approaches are so favored by "natural herd immunity" advocates such as jem. No vaccines, no leadership, no end in sight. How Brazil became a global threat https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/20/amer...distribution-shortfalls-latam-intl/index.html The temperature read 95 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday, but the humidity made it feel worse. Amid the stifling late summer Rio de Janeiro heat, Silvia Silva Santos steadied her 77-year-old mother as they walked toward the clinic gate. "We've already come here twice but she hasn't managed to get a vaccine," said Silva Santos. "She just stands in line and then there's no more vaccines and we have to leave." At the gate, Silva Santos asked the guard if she could get her mother a vaccine. Keenly aware of CNN cameras watching, he quickly ushered her in. About five minutes later, the pair came back out, bad news written on their faces. "I think this is very wrong," said Silva Santos, clearly angry and frustrated. "Now we'll have to find out again when they'll have vaccines and you never know when." That frustration rippled through the elderly crowd as person after person was denied a first dose of a vaccine, after the state of Rio de Janeiro suspended its vaccination campaign because it had run out of vaccine supplies. "This is a disaster, a total disaster," a woman told CNN afterbeing denied her vaccine. "Who is to blame for all this? I think our leaders, our politicians suck." The growing perfect storm The Covid-19 crisis in Brazil has never been worse. Nearly every Brazilian state has an ICU occupancy of 80% or higher, according to a CNN analysis of state data. As of Friday, 16 of 26 states were at or above 90%, meaning those health systems have collapsed or are at imminent risk of doing so. The seven-day averages of both new cases and new deaths are higher than they have ever been. In the last 10 days, about a quarter of all coronavirus deaths worldwide have been recorded in Brazil, according to CNN analysis. "They are clear signs that we are in a phase of very critical acceleration of the epidemic and it is unprecedented," said Jesem Orellana, a Brazilian epidemiologist. If vaccines are the ultimate way out from this global pandemic, Brazil has a long way to go to seeing this through. As of Friday, less than 10 million people in the country of about 220 million had received at least one dose, according to federal health data. Only 1.57% of the population had been fully vaccinated. That is the result of a slow rollout program that has been plagued by delays. During the announcement of its distribution plan in early February, the government promised some 46 million vaccine doses to be available in March. It's been repeatedly forced to lower that number, now estimating only 26 million by month's end. In-country production of what the governments says will eventually be hundreds of millions of doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine only just got off the ground. The first 500,000 doses were delivered and celebrated by top Ministry of Health officials in Rio de Janeiro this week, despite being months behind schedule. "[There are] no vaccines in an amount that would really make an impact right now," said Natalia Pasternak, a Brazilian microbiologist, who said it won't be until well into the second half of the year before enough vaccines are available to make a substantive impact on the epidemic. If vaccines are to remain in short supply for the foreseeable future, the only remaining ways to control the epidemic's exponential growth in Brazil are the methods the world has heard ad nauseam -- social distancing, no large crowds, restricted movements and good hygiene. But in many places throughout Brazil, that is just not happening. In bustling Rio de Janeiro, it is easy to find maskless crowds walking the streets, conversing in close quarters. Though the city's famed beaches are closed this weekend, restaurants and bars can still be open until 9 p.m., many likely to be filled to capacity. Many states have imposed much harsher restrictions including nighttime curfews, but local leaders are fighting against federal leadership, or a lack thereof, determined to keep things open. President Jair Bolsonaro, a Covid-19 skeptic who has mocked the efficacy of vaccines and hasn't publicly taken one himself, announced Thursday that he would be taking legal action against certain states in the country's Supreme Court, claiming the only person who can decree curfews is him -- something he has promised never to do. Despite thousands of people dying from the virus each day, he claims the real threat is from the economic harm virus-prompted restrictions can impose. Millions of his supporters are following his lead, openly flaunting local regulations of social distancing and mask wearing. All of this would be concerning enough on its own, but it is exacerbated by a deeply concerning reality -- the spread of Covid-19 variants. 'People don't realize how much worse P.1 is' The P.1 variant was first discovered in Japan. Health authorities detected the viral mutation in multiple travelers that were returning from Amazonas state, an isolated region in Brazil's north replete with rainforest. CNN reported from the region in late January, where a brutal second wave of Covid-19 was decimating the city of Manaus. Nearly two months later, more and more research points to the P.1 variant as a crucial factor not only in the Manaus outbreak but in the nationwide crisis Brazil faces today. A study from Brazil's top medical research foundation, Fiocruz, from early March found that of eight Brazilian states studied, Covid-19 variants including P.1 were prevalent in at least 50% of new cases. The variant is widely agreed to be more easily transmissible, up to 2.2 times so according to a recent study. That is more transmissible than the widely discussed B.1.1.7 variant first identified in the United Kingdom, which is up to 1.7 times more transmissible, according to a December study. That same study also found that people are 25% to 65% more likely to evade existing protective immunity from previous non-P.1 infections. Finally, there remain concerns the different vaccines might not be as effective against the P.1 variant. Though a recent study from the UK did find that the "existing vaccines may protect against the Brazilian coronavirus variant," CNN spoke to several epidemiologists who remain concerned. "The world has not awoken the dire potential reality that P1 variant could represent," said Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, an epidemiologist. "People don't realize how much worse P1 is." Brazil is becoming a global hazard Amidst Brazil's unmitigated viral spread lies two additional, distinct threats. One, the easier export of the existing P.1 variant abroad. It's already in at least two dozen countries and counting and international travel to and from Brazil is still open to for most countries. Two, if the P.1 variant was created here, so can others. "The pandemic being out of control in Brazil caused the variant," said Pasternak, the Brazilian microbiologist. "And it's going to cause more variants. It's going to cause more mutations because this is what happens when you let the virus replicate freely." Under the laws of viral evolution, new variants are created to try and allow the virus to spread more easily. Along the way, more dangerous iterations can be created. "More variants mean that there is a greater probability that one of these variants can really escape all vaccines, for instance," said Pasternak. "It's rare, but it could happen." That, she says, makes Brazil a global hazard, not just to its neighboring countries but to others around the world. "All of this together should raise the alarms in every country around the world that we must help Brazil contain P1, lest we all suffer the same fate of the collapsing Brazilian hospital system," said Dr. Feigl-Ding. With a lack of a vaccines and a government unwilling to take the steps necessary to prevent that from happening, it is unclear how things get better in Brazil anytime soon.