Brazil’s unexpected plan to vaccinate the homeless, prisoners and descendants of enslaved Africans first is coming undone
But months into Brazil’s beleaguered vaccination campaign, and amid record death numbers, the government is struggling to keep that commitment. But research shows only 1 percent of quilombo residents have similarly been fully vaccinated. Rates are higher in Indigenous villages, where roughly half have been fully vaccinated, but are lower still among homeless and incarcerated people. Brazil’s overcrowded prisons are crammed with nearly 754,000 inmates. But only 1,000 vaccine doses have been administered to what the government calls a priority group.
Source: Washington Post May 09, 2021 14:10 UTC
