Brazil’s COVID-19 death toll is now almost 337,000, next only to the U.S. To date, Brazil has recorded more than 13 million cases of COVID-19. Some 66,570 people died with COVID-19 in March, more than double the previous monthly record.
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“It’s the largest human tragedy in Brazilian history,” he said. “We may get to 500,000 deaths by July 1, that’s the latest estimate.”
Nicolelis quickly corrected himself, citing the estimates released by the
University of Washington. “If the rate of transmission goes up by about 10 percent, we could get to 600,000 deaths,” he said.
“It’s a nuclear reactor that has set off a chain reaction and is out of control. It’s a biological Fukushima,” he said, referring to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan that was sparked by a tsunami in 2011. (Related: Brazil relives the worst of the pandemic as coronavirus cases and deaths surge anew.)