The foreseen loss of the battle against COVID-19 in South America: A foretold tragedy

• Monica Malta,
• Mario Vianna Vettore,
• Cosme Marcelo Furtado Passos da Silva,
• Angelica Baptista Silva,
• Steffanie A. Strathdee

Affiliations

Monica Malta

Institute for Mental Health Policy Research / Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (IMHPR/CAMH), Toronto, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Corresponding author.

Mario Vianna Vettore

Department of Health and Nursing Sciences / University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

Cosme Marcelo Furtado Passos da Silva

Department of Epidemiology and Quantitative Methods in Health, Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (ENSP/FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Angelica Baptista Silva

Department of Human Rights, Health and Social Diversity, Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (ENSP/FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Steffanie A. Strathdee

Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, United States