Ousted official doubts U.S. ability to handle another virus wave
Republicans attacked Rick Bright, who told lawmakers that the government should not play down the possibility that a vaccine for mass distribution could take years to develop.
Emergency physician Alessandra Said dons personal protective equipment before attending to a patient with covid-19 in Manaus, Brazil. (Raphael Alves for The Post)
A woman falls to her knees behind a member of an emergency team that could not revive her elderly relative who went into cardiac arrest. (Raphael Alves for The Post)
After emergency personnel load this 78-year-old man into an ambulance, they will start searching for a hospital bed. (Raphael Alves for The Post)
Emergency physician Alessandra Said, exhausted, sighs after a visit with her mother, a cancer patient with covid-19. (Raphael Alves for The Post)
In Brazil, a dying man and a desperate search for an open bed
Brazil’s failure to provide enough hospital beds for its surging number of critical coronavirus patients is yielding increasingly grim results, particularly in Manaus, a city of 2 million people.
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