Prognosis
Younger Brazilians Are Dying From Covid in an Alarming New Shift
- Hospitals are seeing a big rise in deaths of those under 50
- Risk factor has gone from “being older” to “being Brazilian”
A demonstrator places a rose on a blanket during a protest against the government’s pandemic response, outside of the Raul Gazzola hospital in Rio de Janeiro on March 24.
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Staggering under its worst period of the pandemic, with daily records of caseloads and deaths, Brazil is facing a daunting development: a rising number of deaths among the young.