Health
Spreading faster, hitting harder – why young Brazilians are dying of Covid – The Guardian
Highly transmissible variant and behavioural factors blamed as intensive care units fill with younger patients
One month after Michel Castros premature brush with death, the coronavirus infection has receded but the nightmares persist.
In them the 31-year-old father relives the spine-chilling scenes he witnessed as his Covid-hit body battled for survival in a Rio ICU. The six-month-old baby who appeared to be suffocating right next to him. The man urinating blood after his kidneys failed. The unnerving bleep-bleep-bleep of machines warning doctors that yet another life was on the line.
It was agony. When…
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