I recently met someone from Recife, a city of 1.6 million in northeast Brazil, and asked about their COVID-19 experience.
The poorer districts went about “life as usual” as cases mounted (a recipe for disaster) shortly after the New York City surge. Then, the “tsunami” hit as health needs climbed well beyond emergency capacity, deaths amounted to 40 per day and so on. It’s nice to be sitting in the…
