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Just unimaginable : Latin America s Covid crisis heads from bad to worse Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro, William Costa in Asunción and Analy Nuño in Guadalajara © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images As the coronavirus epidemic hammered Rio earlier this year, frontline doctor Clarisse Bressan recalls fleeing to her hospital’s toilet to shed surreptitious tears of exhaustion and fear. “I lost a colleague who was my resident, someone younger than me, a newlywed,” said the 43-year-old tropical medicine specialist. “It’s a disaster – just unimaginable, a nightmare.” Ten months and nearly 180,000 Brazilian deaths later, Bressan said she felt anger as she watched cities reopen, bars, restaurants and gyms pack, and her intensive care unit once again fill with wheezing, panicked patients unsure if they would survive.

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