The Pandemic Is Still Global. Here's How Vaccination Is Going In Other Countries
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🗓️ 11 March 2021
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Duke University's Miguel Nicolelis tells NPR what it's like in Sao Paulo, where hospitals are turning patients away.
Other countries are also struggling to contain the coronavirus, combat disinformation, and distribute vaccines. NPR international correspondents survey the obstacles: Diaa Hadid in Islamabad, Ruth Sherlock in Beirut and Julie McCarthy, who covers the Philippines.
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| 0:00.0 | Earlier this year, public health experts in Brazil warned that hospitals and some parts of the country were headed for a catastrophic collapse by the end of March. |
| 0:09.5 | Now it looks like they may get there early. |
| 0:12.0 | And you just see your comrades dying, your friends, your parents, your relatives. |
| 0:17.0 | They're dying and blessings in other parts of Brazil. They're dying at home. They die on the streets. |
| 0:23.0 | And you are seeing scenes which reminds me of what we saw in New York, where you cannot even handle the bodies of the victims. |
| 0:31.0 | Dr. Miguel Nicolaylis is a neuroscientist at Duke University, he's from Brazil, and has spent the last year in São Paulo, where he's been advising the government on the pandemic. |
| 0:42.0 | The country has been inundated with cases from a more contagious variant, one that appears to re-infect people who've already been sick. |
| 0:50.0 | Some hospitals there are now turning patients away. |
| 0:53.0 | Brazil's president, Jayer Bolsonaro, has argued against face masks. |
| 0:59.0 | He's undermined shutdowns and said this week, enough fussing and whining, how much longer will the crying go on. |
| 1:09.0 | Now Brazil, not the US, leads the world in daily deaths. |
| 1:14.0 | At this point, less than 4% of the country has been vaccinated. The government, which has been slow to secure doses, is scrambling to get more. |
| 1:23.0 | Nicolaylis says it's not just Brazil that's in trouble. |
| 1:27.0 | Brazil is becoming the largest open, a sky laboratory for new variants to come about. |
| 1:34.0 | Because if you have this large number of people infected, you are going to have a huge number of mutations taking place. And eventually, some of these mutations can become more little or more infected. |
| 1:46.0 | Consider this, while there's a growing sense of hope in the US, that kind of hope feels worlds away in some countries. |
| 1:54.0 | We'll check in on vaccine progress in three of them. |
| 1:58.0 | From NPR, I'm Audie Cornish. It's Thursday, March 11th. |
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