Pandemic Policy

Leadership

n Brazil, president Jair Bolsonaro... The president also highly publicized the unproven anti-malarian drug chloroquine as being effective against the virus, ordering the Ministry of Health to produce four million doses. His insistence on the use of the drug caused the loss of two health ministers, Dr. Henrique Mandetta, fired by Bolsonaro last April, and Dr. Nelson Teich, who resigned less than a month after taking over. Since then, the position has been filled by an army general specializing in logistics, with neither medical education nor experience. https://www.fairobserver.com/politics/lenin-cavalcanti-guerra-sebastian-pinera-chile-covid-19-vaccination-program-brazil-argentina-latin-america-news-142612/