Felicia Knaul of UM has highlighted federal responses in Brazil and Mexico that worsened the impact of COVID-19 and its resulting death tolls. Knaul found that a common factor was that federal guidelines were not enacted to combat the disease.
“The similarities between Mexico and Brazil are poor leadership that refused to use evidence on which to base the policies that were implemented,” said Knaul. “It was politically driven policy-making that was not based on evidence, and that is why these two countries have suffered more than they had to.”
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