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Manaus is collapsing again. Is a new coronavirus variant to blame?


Manaus is collapsing again. Is a new coronavirus variant to blame?

Manaus is collapsing again. Is a new coronavirus variant to blame? · A new coronavirus variant. Four epidemiologists told CNN that a new ...

Brazil's collapsing health service, new COVID variant, raise ...

The city of Manaus made world headlines last April when a first wave of the coronavirus swept through the city. Now that city, and the ...

Coronavirus Crisis Gets 'Even Worse' In Brazilian Amazon City Of ...

Reinfections More Likely With New Coronavirus Variants, Evidence Suggests ... The public health system in Manaus collapsed again this month. An ...

Virus Variant in Brazil Infected Many Who Had Already Recovered ...

1's meteoric rise in the Amazonian city of Manaus. It most likely arose there in November and then fueled a record-breaking spike of coronavirus ...

Is Manaus the final nail in the coffin for natural herd immunity?

Hospitals in the Brazilian Amazon collapsed for the second time in mid-January. A surge in patients with covid-19 exhausted hospital supplies of ...

Collapse of the public health system and the emergence of new ...

The federal government has downplayed the impact of pandemic, discouraged the use of face masks, ignored quarantine and lockdown measures and advocated for the ...

Is a New COVID-19 Strain Behind a Surge of Cases in Brazil? | TIME

Officials in Amazonas state blamed a surge of COVID-19 cases on a new strain ... again driven the city's health services to a state of collapse ...

Brazil's 'rapid and violent' Covid variant devastates Latin America

Until Manaus's collapse, which coincided with the emergence of similar variants in England and South Africa, Sabino had been hopeful ...

How Manaus, Brazil missed warning after warning until its health ...

Manaus is witnessing its second coronavirus wave, a shock to the many who thought its first wave was so widespread that herd immunity must ...

Lax social distancing fuelled a coronavirus variant in Brazil - Nature

1 variant — also called Gamma — in people who returned to Japan from Manaus, the capital of Brazil's Amazonas state. Since P.1 emerged, ...

New coronavirus variants could cause more reinfections ... - Science

Thirteen of 31 samples collected in mid-December in Manaus turned out to be part of a new viral lineage they called P.1. Much more research is ...

Reinfections More Likely With New Coronavirus Variants, Evidence ...

The variant in Brazil is causing a surge in Manaus, a city where the virus previously infected huge numbers in the spring of 2020.

Brazil coronavirus variant crushes Manaus - The Washington Post

But the new surge, when it came, was different. The virus had mutated, with a suite of alterations that probably made it more transmissible — ...

Modelling the unexpected dynamics of COVID-19 in Manaus, Brazil

In late March 2020, SARS-CoV-2 arrived in Manaus, Brazil, and rapidly developed into a large-scale epidemic that collapsed the local health system and ...

The Brazil Variant Is Exposing the World's Vulnerability - The Atlantic

The first is that, after a COVID-19 infection, the natural immunity that our bodies develop seems to vary in strength and permanence. Protection ...

Resolving the enigma of Iquitos and Manaus: A modeling ... - PNAS

This makes it difficult to explain the more deadly second wave of COVID-19 that struck again in Manaus just months later, simultaneous with the appearance of a ...

COVID-19 crisis in Manaus: Cascade effect in rural Amazon towns

“Knowing more about the disease, we should be in a better position to save lives, but that is only if we have oxygen and possibilities to refer ...

The unexpected dynamics of COVID-19 in Manaus, Brazil - medRxiv

In late March 2020, SARS-CoV-2 arrived in Manaus, Brazil, and rapidly developed into a large-scale epidemic that collapsed the local health ...

Repercussions and Legacy of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Manaus ...

... Manaus, which became the disease epicenter in the country during these periods, and Manaus was the place where a new virus strain (P.1) was ...

Health care in Brazil's Amazonas state in 'collapse' as Covid-19 ...

“I would say yes, there is a collapse in healthcare in Manaus. ... blamed a new variant of coronavirus that is circulating in the city. ... again, new CDC ...