For months, Natalia Pasternak has been pleading with Brazilians to take science and coronavirus seriously, in a marathon of TV appearances, newspaper columns, livestreams and podcasts. “I gave interviews at 2 o’clock,” said the microbiologist and broadcaster who manages a group of civil society, the Question of Science Institute. When …
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Former Health Minister Jair Bolsonaro has accused the Brazilian president of not offering “one word of comfort” to the families of the 100,000 Brazilians who lost their lives to Covid-19. In an interview, the latest Covid-19 milestone from Brazil, utter Luiz Henrique Mandetta – who was fired in April after …
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