States’ evidence: Brazil’s messy covid-19 response
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The Economist
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🗓️ 7 April 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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President Jair Bolsonaro still dismisses the disease as “just the sniffles”, so state and local authorities—and the country’s vast slums—have taken matters into their own hands. The physical and mental needs of the world’s locked-down populations are driving a boom in online wellness. And we look back on the life of the French chef who revolutionised English fine dining.
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| 0:00.0 | Truth is, humanity can save itself and our planet. |
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| 0:56.8 | The world of both body and mind is going online, and changes that locked down populations |
| 1:01.9 | are making now may reshape the wellness industry forever. |
| 1:06.6 | And our obituaries editor looks back on the life of Michelle Rue, decorated chef who took |
| 1:11.6 | it as his mission to teach the British how to eat well, did nearly work. |
| 1:19.6 | First up though. |
| 1:23.4 | Yesterday evening, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to intensive care, |
| 1:28.3 | 10 days after testing positive for the coronavirus. |
| 1:31.7 | He's the first head of a Western government to be hospitalized for COVID-19. |
| 1:35.9 | The promise is not an event later. |
| 1:38.0 | He has received oxygen support and of course, one of the reasons for being in intensive care |
| 1:42.8 | is to make sure that whatever support the medical team can set it to be appropriate can be provided. |
| 1:49.0 | And deterioration of the Prime Minister's condition has unsettled British politics at a crucial moment. |
| 1:54.5 | Unlike America, Britain has no formal system of succession. |
| 1:58.8 | However, the administration has said that Dominic Rob, before in secretary, will stand in from |
| 2:03.4 | Mr. Johnson, where necessary, as to Rob even update last night. |
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