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Images show people and ambulances at the entrance to Rio de Janeiro's Miguel Couto hospital, in coronavirus-stricken Brazil, as the total confirmed deaths from Covid-19 around the world pass two million. IMAGES
With the second-highest COVID-19 death toll in the world, Brazil is experiencing a huge surge in new cases. Nevertheless, Business Insider reports the country's president, Jair Bolsonaro, says he has no plans to take Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine against the virus. Bolsonaro has already had COVID-19 and says he is now immune. He called those who criticize his refusal to be vaccinated 'idiots' and 'imbeciles. Thursday, Bolsonaro suggested that the vaccine could produce bizarre side-effects, such as women growing beards or men speaking in effeminate voices. In the Pfizer contract, it's very clear. 'We're not responsible for any side effects.' If you turn into a crocodile, that's your problem. Jair Bolsonaro President of Brazil
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Massive studies have shown great things, says Business Insider. Two leading coronavirus vaccines are highly effective at preventing people from getting COVID-19. Top researchers are already pitching plans for additional studies. This research aims to answer a critical question... Will this also prevent transmission of the virus? Many people wonder, particularly, about asymptomatic infections and carriers. Key barriers to these studies are getting funding and getting vaccine developers on board.
Michael Osterholm is the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. And according to HuffPost, he has a grim prognostication for the next six to 12 weeks, saying they're going to be 'the darkest of the entire pandemic.' HuffPost says Osterholm points to the daily tally of 70,000 new COVID-19 cases in the US on Friday, which is the highest level since July. He said that between now and the holidays, the number of COVID-19 cases in the US will likely 'blow right through that.' Speaking on NBC's 'Meet the Press' on Sunday, Osterholm said he was troubled by the US's lack of a leading voice to guide the public. Vaccines will not become available in any meaningful way until early to the third quarter of next year. And even then, about half of the U.S. population at this point is skeptical of even taking the vaccine. Michel Osterholm Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota
Los Angeles, May 26 (EFE/EPA).- Los Angeles authorities opened the city's largest COVID-19 testing center Tuesday.Located outside the Dodgers baseball team stadium, it has the capacity to serve up to 6,000 people a day.(Camera: EUGENE GARCIA)FOOTAGE SHOWS THE TESTING STATION THAT OPENED IN THE PARKING LOT OF BASEBALL'S DODGER STADIUM IN LOS ANGELES, US.
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