One Brazilian health care provider dies of the coronavirus every 19 hours, according to the latest Brazilian government statistics. Dr. Miguel Nicolelis in São Paulo tells The World’s Marco Werman that his colleagues are under such immense stress that many feel as though they’ve spent the past year in a war zone.
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