This applies to the US as well, only difference is vaccine access.. they have to be deployed and utilized to be effective, and border controls enacted.

It's also becoming winter in the southern hemisphere, but S African and Brazil variants have been spreading at elevated rates over wild type through summer anyway.. extremely dangerous situation. Brazil's president still seems content to let their citizens die, at the moment.

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https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/202...r-covid-19

"Brazil now represents a threat to global public health," said Dr. Pedro Hallal, coordinator of Epicovid-19, the largest epidemiological study into the coronavirus in Brazil.

With the virus out of control, he said he believes Brazil is a breeding ground for more variants that could prove even more lethal and spread to other countries.

"The virus is circulating so widely in Brazil that it is possible, and I would say likely, that new variants will appear in the near future. We need to stop that urgently," he said.

Hallal wants an international task force made up of governments, health organizations and pharmaceutical companies to get far more vaccines to Brazil as soon as possible. If not, "global efforts to control COVID-19 will be jeopardized," he said.

"We need vaccines now! We have to intercept the transmission of this virus in the community. We already have four variants ... responsible for most of the cases in seven states of Brazil. This is [a] very, very worrying fact."

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