President Jair Bolsonaro is up for re-election, but his policies failed to slow the coronavirus’s spread.
‘We are being ignored’: Brazil’s researchers blame anti-science government for devastating COVID surge
Many of the presidential candidates, including Bolsonaro, are promising to bolster Brazil’s health system, known as SUS. But the country is also now grappling with other issues, including food security and economic inflation, which could trump pandemic concerns when Brazilians head to the voting booth.
The main point of the study, says lead author Marta Giovanetti, a visiting virologist at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro, “is to discuss the role of populational mobility and the emergence of the first variants of concern” in Brazil.
How these promises would be implemented and paid for isn’t clear to many researchers, however. “The proposals are superficial and don’t go into concrete steps on how they will face the challenges we have,” says physician Gonzalo Vecina Neto, who directed Brazil’s Health Regulatory Agency between 1999 and 2003.
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