Why Is Covid Killing So Many Young Children in Brazil? Doctors Are Baffled
Experts believe Brazil?s overloaded hospital system and uneven access to health care are among the reasons babies and small children are succumbing to the virus at a high rate.
By Ana Ionova
May 16, 2021Updated 10:12 a.m. ETRIO DE JANEIRO ? Fretting over a fever in her toddler that wouldn?t break, the mother took the young girl, Let?cia, to a hospital. Doctors had worrisome news: It was Covid-19.
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Less than two weeks later, on Feb. 27, Let?cia died in the critical care unit of the hospital in Maring?, in southern Brazil, after days of labored breathing.
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Covid-19 is ravaging Brazil, and, in a disturbing new wrinkle that experts are working to understand, it appears to be killing babies and small children at an unusually high rate.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/world/americas/brazil-covid-child-deaths.html
Experts believe Brazil?s overloaded hospital system and uneven access to health care are among the reasons babies and small children are succumbing to the virus at a high rate.
By Ana Ionova
May 16, 2021Updated 10:12 a.m. ETRIO DE JANEIRO ? Fretting over a fever in her toddler that wouldn?t break, the mother took the young girl, Let?cia, to a hospital. Doctors had worrisome news: It was Covid-19.
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Less than two weeks later, on Feb. 27, Let?cia died in the critical care unit of the hospital in Maring?, in southern Brazil, after days of labored breathing.
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Covid-19 is ravaging Brazil, and, in a disturbing new wrinkle that experts are working to understand, it appears to be killing babies and small children at an unusually high rate.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/world/americas/brazil-covid-child-deaths.html