RIO DE JANEIRO — In the country with the most Covid-19 deaths a day and over 100,000 new daily cases, alarm and anger is growing over the lack of access and the slow pace of vaccinations amid a health care system nearing collapse.

The bitterness and frustration around vaccine access and delays have become part of the country’s routine. Last week, officials in Macapá, the capital of the northern state of Amapá, announced a temporary suspension in their vaccination schedule due to a vaccine shortage.

“The vaccination pace is 10 times under the nation's capacity," said Miguel Nicolelis, a Brazilian neuroscientist and researcher at Duke University.


Only 2.1 percent of Brazilians have received two vaccine shots, and only a third of the 77 million Brazilians who qualify for shots — the elderly, health care workers and Indigenous communities —are being vaccinated. Fewer than 7 percent of Brazilians have received at least one shot since January.

The low numbers are a stark reversal for a country that has long been regarded as one of the world's best on vaccinations. In a recent poll, 76 percent of Brazilians think the vaccination is slower than it should be.

Steep rise in deaths among younger Brazilians
Deaths, those 30 to 59, have increased by 317 percent from the beginning of the year to mid-March, and new cases in that age group have grown by almost 600 percent.

The rising cases are overwhelming hospitals' resources since younger adults resist longer than the elderly in intubation, which requires even more supplies.


Renan Cardoso, 22, was the first to die in São Paulo in the recent Covid-19 wave while waiting for a space in an ICU. His family is now watching over Renan's father, who tested positive for Covid-19.

“A few doctors already disagreed on what to do with him,” Paulo Lobato, his cousin, told NBC News, fearing that the family nightmare might happen again. Renan's father is isolated in a room at home, waiting to get better, hoping he doesn't have to go to a hospital. If he does, he will join a line of 6,300 people nationwide waiting for a bed.

Caroline Lins, a photographer, has seen the early stages of this latest surge in her home city, Manaus. What is now being felt nationwide, with crowded hospitals and lack of ICU beds, hit the city first, in January.

“The same patterns are repeating,” she told NBC, remembering the emergency campaign she and others did to gather supplies, and oxygen cylinders, for the city's hospitals.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/brazil-covid-vaccines-worlds-deadliest-daily-record-misinformation-rcna527?cid=sm_in

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