Brazil doctor says country is underreporting infant COVID-19 deaths Jordan Williams © Getty Images Brazil doctor says country is underreporting infant COVID-19 deaths
A doctor in Brazil this week said that a lack of COVID-19 testing is keeping the country s infant death toll artificially low.
The BBC reported that an estimated 1,300 babies have died due to the coronavirus, nearly twice that of official data from the Brazilian Health Ministry, which estimates that just over 500 babies have died.
Fatima Marinho, an epidemiologist and senior adviser to the nongovernmental organization Vital Strategies, shared her research with the news outlet. She said that a lack of testing is keeping the true count lower than it really is.
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