When it comes to COVID-19, no one does it worse than the United States.

We've got 2 million confirmed cases and counting.

We never fully shut down, but we're super into reopening.

And now we're seeing huge COVID spikes all over the country.

Europe is considering reopening its borders, but banning Americans from traveling there,

the border with Canada remains closed.

Nobody wants to play in the sandbox with us because we are the worst, where number one,

but Brazil is catching up.

And the similarities are astonishing.

Never really shut down, check.

A president recommending hydroxychloroquine check concerns over healthcare infrastructure,

check.

But unlike the United States, Brazil has the added risk that if things get really, really

bad, the military might step in and take over.

So long democracy.

We got in touch with Gustavo Hibero to find out how close Brazil is to that desperate scenario.

I'm a journalist, a political scientist, and I am in São Paulo.

He runs the Brazilian report.

It's an English language news site that covers Brazilian politics.

We spoke just after Brazil hit a familiar sounding milestone.

Where 1 million people have been infected here, over 50,000 people died.

And that makes the pandemic the single deadliest event in Brazilian history.

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