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Dipshit Moron Leong Full of Shit, 4th and 5th Waves Causing Lockdowns in Europe
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more people than Sept 11 each day.
Vaccines help but wont solve the whole situationWith more people vaccinated its becoming a rich vs poor country due to vaccine supply kind of thing
India is doing fine so don't worry too much about those Ah Nehs.
Outcomes are way better than the whole of the EU combined.
The numbers may look big but you have to consider the fact that there are 1.4 BILLION Indians out there and the vast majority are absolutely fine.
What is lacking in most covid reports is the figures needed to view things in the proper perspective which is why I have taken on the task of publishing the data which shows the true picture and reveals why Covid is actually far milder than it is made out to be.
You have this naive notion that nobody died until Covid came along but nothing changes the fact that 2 x Sept 11 deaths occur every single hour with or without the virus.
Births and deaths are part and parcel of the cycle of life that has defined human existence since we first appeared on this earth.
All that Covid has done is add to the list of diseases that can be assigned as the cause of death and is nowhere near being a threat to mankind.
Just relax and go about your life normally and all this covid mania will die a natural death in no time at all.
The media, in an attempt to push their agenda, will regularly publish graphs that are designed to scare but in order to view data that is actually meaningful you need to source information from sites like euromomo.eu which tracks excess deaths for the whole of Europe on a weekly basis.
The latest data shows either low excess deaths or none at all which means that if viewed against the average death rate for a particular time of the year Covid is doing little to change the overall death toll.
Here's the excess death chart for the EU.
The latest data shows either low excess deaths or none at all which means that if viewed against the average death rate for a particular time of the year Covid is doing little to change the overall death toll.
Here's the excess death chart for the EU.
Covid passports dead in the water
Exclusive: We won't make customers show Covid passports, hospitality firms warn Boris Johnson
By Ben Riley-Smith, Political Editor 13 April 2021 • 9:00pm
3-4 minutes
More than 60 restaurant owners, nightclub operators and other hospitality figures have told Boris Johnson that they will not force customers to show Covid passports.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, seen by The Telegraph, the signatories make clear their opposition to Covid status certification being used in hospitality settings.
"We will not be forcing our patrons to show us any documentation referring to health status to gain entry," one line of the letter reads.
The intervention is a shot across the bows of the Government as ministers consider whether to require restaurants and pubs to check the Covid status of customers.
Among the signatories are the CEOs of Rekom UK, which runs 42 nightclubs, and Tokyo Industries, which runs clubs, festivals and bars. Others backing the letter include senior figures at venues such as The Hippodrome Casino, Electric Star Pubs, Bocca de Lupo, Proud Cabaret, Brindisa and Burger&Lobster.
Alan Miller, the co-founder of Night Time Industries Association, who organised the letter, said: "The British people have been diligent and remarkable over this last year, and we've all waited for so long to get back to normal.
"We were told in January that vaccines were our way out, and that we were on a one-way road to freedom. It is a far cry from freedom if we are put in the position where pubs, clubs, festivals, shows and venues of any kind are forced to demand health papers. We won't be doing it."
Covid status certification, as envisioned by the Government, would see people having to show proof of a Covid jab, negative test, or natural immunity through antibodies.
Ministers have said they are interested in the checks being used to reopen mass gathering events such as football matches, nightclubs and concerts. They have also left the door open to their use in smaller settings such as pubs and restaurants, but have yet to reach a decision on that front.
Trials this month and next are looking at how Covid status checks could be used. The earliest that Government rules in this area could change is June 21.
The new pledge from hospitality figures is being made under what has been called an "Open for All" charter. Other restaurant and nightclub owners could add their names to it over the coming weeks.
Part of the letter to Mr Johnson reads: "We are UK licensed premises and event promoters that have struggled at this difficult time for everyone. We have no axe to grind politically and many of us think the vaccine roll out has been tremendous. We also know that, for many reasons, some will not have a vaccine.
"Further, we do not believe it is right that we as premises and promoters should demand to see proof of medical records or health status. The majority of people in the UK have chosen to be vaccinated.
"There are many practical and logistical issues for us, alongside civil liberty and discrimination considerations more broadly for society, if venues or events insist on seeing health documents."
Government sources have stressed that social distancing rules could be eased for venues that adopt Covid status checks, potentially seeing the quicker return of full crowds. No decisions on Covid status checks have been formally taken, with a review ongoing.
Exclusive: We won't make customers show Covid passports, hospitality firms warn Boris Johnson
By Ben Riley-Smith, Political Editor 13 April 2021 • 9:00pm
3-4 minutes
More than 60 restaurant owners, nightclub operators and other hospitality figures have told Boris Johnson that they will not force customers to show Covid passports.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, seen by The Telegraph, the signatories make clear their opposition to Covid status certification being used in hospitality settings.
"We will not be forcing our patrons to show us any documentation referring to health status to gain entry," one line of the letter reads.
The intervention is a shot across the bows of the Government as ministers consider whether to require restaurants and pubs to check the Covid status of customers.
Among the signatories are the CEOs of Rekom UK, which runs 42 nightclubs, and Tokyo Industries, which runs clubs, festivals and bars. Others backing the letter include senior figures at venues such as The Hippodrome Casino, Electric Star Pubs, Bocca de Lupo, Proud Cabaret, Brindisa and Burger&Lobster.
Alan Miller, the co-founder of Night Time Industries Association, who organised the letter, said: "The British people have been diligent and remarkable over this last year, and we've all waited for so long to get back to normal.
"We were told in January that vaccines were our way out, and that we were on a one-way road to freedom. It is a far cry from freedom if we are put in the position where pubs, clubs, festivals, shows and venues of any kind are forced to demand health papers. We won't be doing it."
Covid status certification, as envisioned by the Government, would see people having to show proof of a Covid jab, negative test, or natural immunity through antibodies.
Ministers have said they are interested in the checks being used to reopen mass gathering events such as football matches, nightclubs and concerts. They have also left the door open to their use in smaller settings such as pubs and restaurants, but have yet to reach a decision on that front.
Trials this month and next are looking at how Covid status checks could be used. The earliest that Government rules in this area could change is June 21.
The new pledge from hospitality figures is being made under what has been called an "Open for All" charter. Other restaurant and nightclub owners could add their names to it over the coming weeks.
Part of the letter to Mr Johnson reads: "We are UK licensed premises and event promoters that have struggled at this difficult time for everyone. We have no axe to grind politically and many of us think the vaccine roll out has been tremendous. We also know that, for many reasons, some will not have a vaccine.
"Further, we do not believe it is right that we as premises and promoters should demand to see proof of medical records or health status. The majority of people in the UK have chosen to be vaccinated.
"There are many practical and logistical issues for us, alongside civil liberty and discrimination considerations more broadly for society, if venues or events insist on seeing health documents."
Government sources have stressed that social distancing rules could be eased for venues that adopt Covid status checks, potentially seeing the quicker return of full crowds. No decisions on Covid status checks have been formally taken, with a review ongoing.
You are wrong on just about everything. What is like to be so full of shit?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-highest-new-covid-cases-per-person-in-europe
Sweden has highest new Covid cases per person in Europe
Figure of 625 new infections per 1m people is many times larger than Nordic neighbours
People queue for their vaccine against Covid-19 at the Stockholmsmässan centre in Stockholm, Sweden. Photograph: Fredrik Sandberg/EPA
Jon Henley Europe correspondent
@jonhenley
Tue 13 Apr 2021 07.32 EDT
2,000
Sweden has reported Europe’s highest number of new coronavirus infections per head over the past week and has more patients in intensive care than at any time since the pandemic’s first wave.
The Scandinavian country, which has opted against strict lockdowns but gradually ratcheted up its still mostly voluntary restrictions, has a seven-day average of 625 new infections per million people, according to ourworldindata.org.
That compares with 521 in Poland, 491 in France, 430 in the Netherlands, 237 in Italy and 208 in Germany, the data showed. The figure was many times higher than the 65, 111 and 132 per million in Sweden’s Nordic neighbours Finland, Denmark and Norway.
According to the Swedish intensive care registry, 392 people were being treated in the country’s intensive care units on Monday, more than the second-wave peak of 389 in January but still lower than the 558 patients in ICUs in spring 2020.
However, while both infections and ICU patients have surged, Sweden’s death toll has so far not risen so sharply, a trend the national health agency said was due to many of the most vulnerable, particularly care home residents, now being vaccinated.
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The Social Democrat-led government of the prime minister, Stefan Löfven, postponed a planned easing of some restrictions in late March until at least 3 May, but has insisted tougher measures are not yet needed to bring the latest surge under control.
The Swedish public had “really changed its behaviour and daily life is, to a very great extent, already very restricted”, said the health minister, Lena Hallengren.
The government had planned to ease some rules, including raising the limit on the number of visitors to amusement parks, concerts and football matches, after the Easter break, but was advised against doing so yet by the public health agency.
Non-essential shops have remained open in Sweden, although the government has limited customer numbers, and bars and restaurants have continued to serve, albeit with increasingly tough restrictions on opening hours and alcohol sales.
Restrictions have been steadily tightened on public gatherings but schools have mostly stayed open, although rules vary regionally. Hallengren said last week the government had brought in the measures it believed necessary.
“Whether that has been sufficient, is not a judgment that I can sit here and make,” she told MPs last week. Hallengren said the policy had been to “put lives and health first and protect the healthcare system as much as we can”.
But Hallengren said the government had also tried to “secure society’s other important functions. Once this is over, society should be able to continue to function.” The aim was not to affect people’s private lives “overly much”, she said.
Surveys show Swedes have been paying less attention to recommendations in recent weeks, prompting the country’s chief epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell, to call for greater discipline. “What’s needed is for people to observe the rules we have,” he said.
The country of 10 million people has seen more than 13,000 Covid-related deaths, giving it a death rate per million of nearly 1,350 – many times higher than that of its Nordic neighbours, but lower than in several European countries that opted for lockdowns.
An analysis of official data from several countries showed last month that the increase in excess mortality – a measure of how many more deaths a country has seen than normal – was smaller in Sweden in 2020 than in most European countries.
Infectious disease experts have said the results should not be seen as evidence that lockdowns were unnecessary, but acknowledged they may indicate Sweden’s overall stance on fighting the pandemic may have some aspects worth studying.
Preliminary data from the EU statistics agency, Eurostat, compiled by the Reuters news agency showed Sweden had 7.7% more deaths in 2020 than its average for the previous four years, a lower figure than in 21 of the 30 countries surveyed.
Spain and Belgium, which opted for repeated strict lockdowns, had so-called excess mortality of 18.1% and 16.2% respectively.
However, Sweden did much worse than its Nordic neighbours, with Denmark registering just 1.5% excess mortality and Finland 1.0%. Norway had no excess mortality at all in 2020.
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You are wrong on just about everything. What is like to be so full of shit?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-highest-new-covid-cases-per-person-in-europe
Sweden has highest new Covid cases per person in Europe
Figure of 625 new infections per 1m people is many times larger than Nordic neighbours
People queue for their vaccine against Covid-19 at the Stockholmsmässan centre in Stockholm, Sweden. Photograph: Fredrik Sandberg/EPA
Jon Henley Europe correspondent
@jonhenley
Tue 13 Apr 2021 07.32 EDT
2,000
Sweden has reported Europe’s highest number of new coronavirus infections per head over the past week and has more patients in intensive care than at any time since the pandemic’s first wave.
The Scandinavian country, which has opted against strict lockdowns but gradually ratcheted up its still mostly voluntary restrictions, has a seven-day average of 625 new infections per million people, according to ourworldindata.org.
That compares with 521 in Poland, 491 in France, 430 in the Netherlands, 237 in Italy and 208 in Germany, the data showed. The figure was many times higher than the 65, 111 and 132 per million in Sweden’s Nordic neighbours Finland, Denmark and Norway.
According to the Swedish intensive care registry, 392 people were being treated in the country’s intensive care units on Monday, more than the second-wave peak of 389 in January but still lower than the 558 patients in ICUs in spring 2020.
However, while both infections and ICU patients have surged, Sweden’s death toll has so far not risen so sharply, a trend the national health agency said was due to many of the most vulnerable, particularly care home residents, now being vaccinated.
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The Social Democrat-led government of the prime minister, Stefan Löfven, postponed a planned easing of some restrictions in late March until at least 3 May, but has insisted tougher measures are not yet needed to bring the latest surge under control.
The Swedish public had “really changed its behaviour and daily life is, to a very great extent, already very restricted”, said the health minister, Lena Hallengren.
The government had planned to ease some rules, including raising the limit on the number of visitors to amusement parks, concerts and football matches, after the Easter break, but was advised against doing so yet by the public health agency.
Non-essential shops have remained open in Sweden, although the government has limited customer numbers, and bars and restaurants have continued to serve, albeit with increasingly tough restrictions on opening hours and alcohol sales.
Restrictions have been steadily tightened on public gatherings but schools have mostly stayed open, although rules vary regionally. Hallengren said last week the government had brought in the measures it believed necessary.
“Whether that has been sufficient, is not a judgment that I can sit here and make,” she told MPs last week. Hallengren said the policy had been to “put lives and health first and protect the healthcare system as much as we can”.
But Hallengren said the government had also tried to “secure society’s other important functions. Once this is over, society should be able to continue to function.” The aim was not to affect people’s private lives “overly much”, she said.
Surveys show Swedes have been paying less attention to recommendations in recent weeks, prompting the country’s chief epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell, to call for greater discipline. “What’s needed is for people to observe the rules we have,” he said.
The country of 10 million people has seen more than 13,000 Covid-related deaths, giving it a death rate per million of nearly 1,350 – many times higher than that of its Nordic neighbours, but lower than in several European countries that opted for lockdowns.
An analysis of official data from several countries showed last month that the increase in excess mortality – a measure of how many more deaths a country has seen than normal – was smaller in Sweden in 2020 than in most European countries.
Infectious disease experts have said the results should not be seen as evidence that lockdowns were unnecessary, but acknowledged they may indicate Sweden’s overall stance on fighting the pandemic may have some aspects worth studying.
Preliminary data from the EU statistics agency, Eurostat, compiled by the Reuters news agency showed Sweden had 7.7% more deaths in 2020 than its average for the previous four years, a lower figure than in 21 of the 30 countries surveyed.
Spain and Belgium, which opted for repeated strict lockdowns, had so-called excess mortality of 18.1% and 16.2% respectively.
However, Sweden did much worse than its Nordic neighbours, with Denmark registering just 1.5% excess mortality and Finland 1.0%. Norway had no excess mortality at all in 2020.
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Unlike many others, we have maintained our choice: to keep Guardian journalism open for all readers, regardless of where they live or what they can afford to pay. We do this because we believe in information equality, where everyone deserves to read accurate news and thoughtful analysis. Greater numbers of people are staying well-informed on world events, and being inspired to take meaningful action.
We aim to offer readers a comprehensive, international perspective on critical events shaping our world – from the Black Lives Matter movement, to the new American administration, Brexit, and the world's slow emergence from a global pandemic. We are committed to upholding our reputation for urgent, powerful reporting on the climate emergency, and made the decision to reject advertising from fossil fuel companies, divest from the oil and gas industries, and set a course to achieve net zero emissions by 2030.
Don't bother about cases per million because every country has a different testing regime.
I look at the deaths per million figure and it shows me that Sweden is doing very well vs the EU combined.
The light touch caused higher numbers to begin with but it shows that Sweden took the correct long term approach.
Wrong. yet again.
https://www.euronews.com/2021/04/14...ckdown-as-country-sees-daily-covid-cases-soar
Swedish region declares 'personal lockdown' as country sees daily COVID cases soar
COMMENTSBy Chantal Da Silva • Updated: 14/04/2021 - 16:27
People walk past a bin with a sign reading "The danger is not over. Keep your distance" in a pedestrian street in central Uppsala, Sweden. October 21, 2020. - Copyright Claudio Bresciani/AFP
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One of Sweden’s most densely populated regions has declared a “personal lockdown” as the country saw its daily rate of coronavirus cases soar.
“We are asking each [individual] to act like they are in a personal lockdown,” Mikael Köhler, health chief of the Swedish region of Uppsala, told Euronews.
Calling the effort an “extraordinary” step, Köhler said officials were asking Uppsala residents to only have close contact "with the people they live with”.
“If they have to meet other people ... everyone has to suspect that everyone they are meeting could be infected,” he said.
Uppsala’s clampdown on coronavirus measures comes as Sweden contends with a surge in COVID-19 cases, which officials have largely blamed on the spread of the UK variant.
On Tuesday, Sweden reported that it had reached a seven-day average of 587 new infections per million people, with the country’s average surpassing that of other countries across the continent, including France and Poland, according to the latest figures from Our World in Data.
EU-member country Cyprus has seen a similar surge in COVID cases, however, with the country’s seven-day average of 622 new cases per million surpassing Sweden’s numbers.
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With Uppsala recording 908 cases per 100,000 people over the past two weeks, compared to 772 nationwide, according to local reports, Köhler said the region’s new guidelines, which were initially announced last week, are a necessary step.
Home to two universities, Uppsala University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Köhler said it is effectively “a small town in the middle of the world”.
“We have a lot of young people travelling to and from their homes,” he said, which the medical expert said he believed was “related” to Uppsala’s rise in coronavirus numbers.
He also noted that since the start of the pandemic, Sweden’s national government has been more “passive” on coronavirus restrictions than neighbouring nations.
The country has tightened its coronavirus restrictions since being hit by a second wave of the virus in October, with visitor limits imposed at shops and public venues and with pubs and restaurants forced to comply with a curfew.
But Sweden has never enforced lockdown rules similar to those seen in countries like France and the UK.
At the start of the pandemic, Köhler said he believed Sweden’s response was “too passive...and we didn’t act as quickly as we should have”. However, he said: “In the long run, I think we have gone the right way because it would have been difficult to have a lockdown for a while and then another”.
Ultimately, he said, “things have been going backward and forward all the time”.
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Dr Anders Tegnell, Sweden’s state epidemiologist, said Uppsala’s decision to strengthen its coronavirus guidelines was understandable given the epidemiological situation in the area.
However, he said he believed that ultimately there is little difference between the region's guidelines and Sweden's overarching message for residents to practice social distancing and cut down on socialising as much as possible.
Good I love it when this shit for brains gets his ass wiped across the floorWrong. yet again.
https://www.euronews.com/2021/04/14...ckdown-as-country-sees-daily-covid-cases-soar
Swedish region declares 'personal lockdown' as country sees daily COVID cases soar
By Chantal Da Silva • Updated: 14/04/2021 - 16:27
People walk past a bin with a sign reading "The danger is not over. Keep your distance" in a pedestrian street in central Uppsala, Sweden. October 21, 2020. - Copyright Claudio Bresciani/AFP
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One of Sweden’s most densely populated regions has declared a “personal lockdown” as the country saw its daily rate of coronavirus cases soar.
“We are asking each [individual] to act like they are in a personal lockdown,” Mikael Köhler, health chief of the Swedish region of Uppsala, told Euronews.
Calling the effort an “extraordinary” step, Köhler said officials were asking Uppsala residents to only have close contact "with the people they live with”.
“If they have to meet other people ... everyone has to suspect that everyone they are meeting could be infected,” he said.
Uppsala’s clampdown on coronavirus measures comes as Sweden contends with a surge in COVID-19 cases, which officials have largely blamed on the spread of the UK variant.
On Tuesday, Sweden reported that it had reached a seven-day average of 587 new infections per million people, with the country’s average surpassing that of other countries across the continent, including France and Poland, according to the latest figures from Our World in Data.
EU-member country Cyprus has seen a similar surge in COVID cases, however, with the country’s seven-day average of 622 new cases per million surpassing Sweden’s numbers.
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With Uppsala recording 908 cases per 100,000 people over the past two weeks, compared to 772 nationwide, according to local reports, Köhler said the region’s new guidelines, which were initially announced last week, are a necessary step.
Home to two universities, Uppsala University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Köhler said it is effectively “a small town in the middle of the world”.
“We have a lot of young people travelling to and from their homes,” he said, which the medical expert said he believed was “related” to Uppsala’s rise in coronavirus numbers.
He also noted that since the start of the pandemic, Sweden’s national government has been more “passive” on coronavirus restrictions than neighbouring nations.
The country has tightened its coronavirus restrictions since being hit by a second wave of the virus in October, with visitor limits imposed at shops and public venues and with pubs and restaurants forced to comply with a curfew.
But Sweden has never enforced lockdown rules similar to those seen in countries like France and the UK.
At the start of the pandemic, Köhler said he believed Sweden’s response was “too passive...and we didn’t act as quickly as we should have”. However, he said: “In the long run, I think we have gone the right way because it would have been difficult to have a lockdown for a while and then another”.
Ultimately, he said, “things have been going backward and forward all the time”.
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Dr Anders Tegnell, Sweden’s state epidemiologist, said Uppsala’s decision to strengthen its coronavirus guidelines was understandable given the epidemiological situation in the area.
However, he said he believed that ultimately there is little difference between the region's guidelines and Sweden's overarching message for residents to practice social distancing and cut down on socialising as much as possible.
sam leong is an idiot as you can see
Brazil now highest in the world
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/brazi...ophe-as-daily-death-toll-is-highest-in-world/
Brazil's COVID crisis reaches "catastrophe" as daily death toll is highest in world
CBS News national correspondent Manuel Bojorquez reports from Sao Paulo on the growing coronavirus crisis in Brazil.11H AGO
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Brazil's COVID crisis reaches "catastrophe" as daily death toll is highest in world
CBS News national correspondent Manuel Bojorquez reports from Sao Paulo on the growing coronavirus crisis in Brazil.11H AGO
Brazil is doing better than France. The problem with France is that they are forcing everyone to wear masks which makes things worse.
Wrong. Let us know when you plan to say anything factual for once.
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/15/9877...rian-crisis-with-more-than-3-000-deaths-a-day
razil COVID-19: 'Humanitarian Crisis' With More Than 3,000 Deaths A Day
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A health worker treats a COVID-19 patient at a field hospital in Ribeirao Pires, greater Sao Paulo area, on Tuesday.
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Health officials in Brazil say many hospitals are running dangerously short of sedatives and other crucial medications used for treating gravely ill COVID-19 patients.
They say some health services have already exhausted stocks of certain drugs, while others expect to do so within the next few days unless they receive fresh supplies.
The warning comes amid intense international concern over the spiraling pandemic in Brazil, where the average daily death toll has risen above 3,000, the highest in the world. To date, 365,444 people in the country have died of COVID-19, according to Brazil's health ministry.
Brazil's health crisis is being described as a "humanitarian catastrophe" by the international medical aid agency Doctors Without Borders (known by its French acronym, MSF), which has teams in parts of the country.
"The Brazilian authorities' ... refusal to adopt evidence-based public health measures has sent far too many to an early grave," MSF's international president Dr. Christos Christou said in a statement on Wednesday.
He said this has put Brazil in "a permanent state of mourning" and has caused "the near collapse of Brazil's health system."
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The alarm over the lack of medicines is being raised, in particular, by the country's richest and most populous state, São Paulo, which has so far registered almost one in four of Brazil's total COVID-19 deaths.
São Paulo's state government says its health services are facing "very serious" shortages, notably of muscle relaxants and sedatives needed for patients on respirators in intensive care units.
In a letter sent Tuesday to Brazil's Health Ministry, the state issued an urgent appeal for fresh supplies and accused the ministry of ignoring nine recent requests.
The scale of the problem has been underscored by a survey conducted by an organization representing local health officials: This found that more than two thirds of the 3,126 municipal health services in São Paulo were completely out of muscle relaxants, while 961 had no sedatives.
Front-line medical staff are reportedly turning to less effective alternative drugs, yet there have also been Brazilian media accounts of patients being tied by their arms to their beds to prevent them reacting violently to intubation when they wake up.
One of the country's leading news organizations, Folha de S. Paulo, recently published photographs and video of patients on respirators with their arms tied to the sides of their beds in a hospital in the northwestern city of Porto Velho.
Medicine shortages are adding to the already intense pressure on the country's intensive care units, where often exhausted and depleted staff are struggling to cope with a second wave of the pandemic, propelled by new variants of the virus. In parts of the country, patients have died while waiting for ICU beds to become available, according to medical staff and victims' families.
Overall occupancy rates for ICU beds have dropped slightly recently but remain critical in most of Brazil, according to a bulletin issued Wednesday by Fiocruz, a national health research institution. It said 16 of Brazil's 26 states have ICU bed occupancy levels of 90% or above. In São Paulo, it was 86%.
Brazil's Health Ministry has reportedly had significant problems buying anything close to sufficient quantities of medicines to cope with the surge in intensive care patients. It said Thursday that a large consignment of medicines donated by businesses was to be flown into the country in the coming hours, including sedatives, muscle relaxants and other drugs.
São Paulo has long been highly critical of the response to the pandemic by President Jair Bolsonaro, who has had four health ministers since the first coronavirus case was reported in Brazil early last year.
The state is far from alone.
Bolsonaro is facing ferocious criticism at home and abroad for scoffing at the threat of the virus, undermining social distancing and isolation measures, advocating unproven remedies, bungling the national vaccination program and discouraging people from being vaccinated.
The far-right president's position has become still more uncomfortable following a decision by Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday to give the go-ahead to a Senate inquiry into his government's handling of the pandemic.
Bolsonaro has argued throughout that lockdowns and other pandemic restrictions inflict more economic and social misery than the virus itself. He fell back on that defense again Wednesday, with a vaguely worded warning that there will soon be "enormous crises" in Brazil.
"I am not threatening anyone, but Brazil is at the limit," he told supporters, adding mysteriously: "I am waiting for the people to give a signal because the hunger, misery and unemployment is there."
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