I am a doctor who graduated 40 years ago. There are doctors who graduated two years ago

that had already done more death certificates than I have done in my entire life. People

are broken. Health is made with equipment, but the most important thing is the people

and they are tired.

Gerardo Heplei-Sabrino is the president of the Council of Municipal Health Secretaries

in Brazil's São Paulo state. The COVID-19 crisis there has never been worse. As some

countries receive relief from vaccinations, it's a different story in Brazil. The country's

healthcare system is collapsing, overwhelmed with new COVID cases. Nearly every Brazilian

state has an ICU occupancy at or above 80% capacity. Doctors there are being forced to make

difficult decisions of who to save and who to let die. For this past year, my colleague

Matt Rivers has been covering the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Brazil. On today's

episode, Matt looks at what went wrong in Brazil and how the country's COVID crisis is

a warning for the world. I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent. And

this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.

In Brazil, more and more patients keep dying. There have been so many deaths recently that

crematoriums in São Paulo are unable to keep up. More than a year into the pandemic

Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, continues to play down the threat of COVID-19. That's

despite testing positive for the virus back in July. And even with the high number of deaths,

he routinely makes remarks that critics say are callous and ignore the pain that so many

in his country are going through. You did not stay at home. You did not cover. We have

to face our problems. In the first scene in the white knee, how much longer we would

acquire in goal one? That said, Bolsonaro did deliver a short TV address promoting vaccines

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