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In the newly released “A patient named Brazil: behind the scenes of the fight against coronavirus” orthopedic physician, former federal deputy and former minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta recounts the struggle to contain the Covid-19 epidemic in Brazil during his tenure in Ministry of Health. On the Thursday 9/24 show, talk to Pedro Bial about the book, the pandemic and the country’s political scene.
In the book and in the conversation Mandetta talk about how Bolsonaro He was convinced that the coronavirus was a Chinese biological weapon for the left to return to power in Latin America. The former minister uses the psychiatric concept of the phases of mourning to explain the “negative and angry” reaction of the president, which, in his definition, was “pro-virus.”
Luiz Henrique Mandetta is the interviewee of Conversa com Bial on Thursday 9/24 – Photo: Playback / TV Globo
However, the former minister acknowledges that the government of Jair bolsonaro He was not solely responsible for Brazil’s failure to contain the advance of the coronavirus. Mandetta recalls a meeting in Geneva in January for the Davos World Economic Forum. At that time, everyone was anxious to know the degree of contagion of the disease: “if it was a heavy virus, a slow virus, how was it MERS, as was SARS, or if it is a virus suitable for transmission “.
“They brought it as if it were something restricted to Wuhan. What was presented came as a heavy virus ”.
He also criticizes the slowness of who when declaring a pandemic. Only when European healthcare systems collapsed did Brazil change its approach.
Bial also get into the topic Paulo guedes, since the Economy Minister is the most criticized in the book of Mandetta. The doctor explains that the “health versus economy” dilemma could only be articulated if there was a joint discourse, which never happened.
“It’s like basketball, I won and came back. It did not flow. We were unable to develop any kind of relationship due to this illness. Sometimes he called, he didn’t answer. “
He maintains that another economist, Roberto Campos Neto, President of central bank, showed that it was possible to have a very different position: “extremely attentive, sending me graphics, asking me”.
