by Tyler Durden
Wednesday, Apr 07, 2021 - 08:00 PM
A couple of months ago, Brazil surpassed the US as the country reporting the most new COVID cases per day.
Now, the stricken Latin American country is reporting as many as 4K deaths per day (for context, the US reported fewer than 500 yesterday).
The wide disparity in deaths between the US and Brazil has been attributed to mutant strains, some of which were first identified in Brazil, which researchers believe have lead to harsher symptoms, especially for younger people. Anyway, as the odds of Brazil overtaking the US in terms of total deaths grow (Brazil now has nearly 340K deaths compared with 555K in the US),