Mandetta said Bolsonaro has been in denial since the beginning of the pandemic. Former Brazilian Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta Tuesday told the Parliamentary Commission investigating the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic that President Jair Bolsonaro tried to change the chloroquine brochure that comes along with the medicine so that it could be used against covid-19. Mandetta told the Senate that Bolsonaro had at the beginning of the pandemic set up a parallel committee under the command of his children to make health decisions. According to Mandetta, Bolsonaro intended to have the chloroquine prospectus changed by decree so that the drug could be used, without scientific verification, on a massive scale against covid-19.