PBS News Hour

Brazil's people fear COVID-19 threat their president denies

How does a country mobilize to fight COVID-19 when its own president says the virus isn’t a serious matter? Brazil is in the process of finding out, as President Jair Bolsonaro prioritizes Latin America’s largest economy in the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Nick Schifrin reports.

Brazil's people fear COVID-19 threat their president denies

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