“Part of the state government demands something, then the city says something different, then the president says something different,” says Dr. Michelle Almeida, a family physician based in southern Brazil. “People are confused about what they can do.”
But many of them — often speaking in a private capacity — said that Bolsonaro, a populist firebrand who has already clashed with most of the country’s state governors over lockdown measures and recently threatened to fire Mandetta, is still not taking the threat of the pandemic sufficiently seriously.Early in March, Bolsonaro dismissed the spread of the coronavirus as a media “fantasy,” and weeks later he described it as a “gripezinha” -- the Portuguese word for a mild flu.
“It’s so difficult,” said Dr. Nilton Freire de Assis Neto, 28, an emergency room doctor practicing in Sao Paulo, who has taken to warning friends, family and patients that medical advice must be followed and quarantine is not a vacation. “People are starting to understand that other people close to them are getting ill and are are going to the hospital, and dying,” he said.Courtesy Lucila De Campos
“The government is recruiting us to be on the front line,” she said. “We felt that we were afraid of these kinds of patients, and that we were frustrated with not knowing for sure with what we were dealing.”
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