Healthcare worker Diego Feitosa Ferreira, 28, arrives to the Cairu community, in the Labrea municipality, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, to vaccinate residents with the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Navigating complex waterways to reach remote communities in Brazil’s Amazon is only the first challenge for the healthcare workers vaccinating Indigenous and riverine people against the new coronavirus.
The governor who has pushed hardest to shore up his state's own vaccine supply during the pandemic is Sao Paulo’s João Doria, a former Bolsonaro ally turned adversary. The president repeatedly criticized Doria's deal to purchase 100 million CoronaVac shots from Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac and said the federal government wouldn't buy them.
Vaccines purchased by the federal government have been distributed across the nation, which is more expansive than the U.S.' contiguous 48 states. With local authorities administering the shots, the number of people immunized isn't clear, nor which locations have looming shortages. One such variant has been widely detected in Amazonas state's capital Manaus, which last month saw itssystem overwhelmed by the crush of patients in desperate need for oxygen. The variant is less vulnerable to some treatments.
Bolsonaro is currently building the largest vaccine factory in Latin America. In fiocruz Rio de Janeiro. So that Brazil no longer depends on vaccines and foreign supplies.
Bolsonaro's government is doing everything possible to minimize the suffering of the population. It is making the biggest cash transfer in the world to the needy. the fact that vaccines are lacking is due to the lack of inputs that come from other countries.
and he will do nothing to vaccinate the people, he is dictator and genocide ... now, he wants to arm the population so that they kill each other.
They are trouble.
SUS is likely the largest operating public health care system in the world with outstanding vaccination adherence and trust. It’s a true gold treasure the belongs to the people of Brazil. Praying for our scientists working on vaccine production 🙏🍀🧪💕 2/2 drdrauzio
The Brazilian Federal Gov. is delivering a very poor administration of vaccine stocks and distribution; states are doing a much better job assessing the resources at SUS (the public health system) to make it available to all. Needs WHO support asap 1/2
We need helping from Europe country to release our Leaders from Army Chief.