Political neglect of COVID-19 and the public health consequences in Brazil: The high costs of science denial

• 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, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (DCS-ENSP/FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Corresponding author.

Mario Vianna Vettore

Department of Social and Preventive Dentistry, Dental School, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Cosme Marcelo Furtado Passos da Silva

Department of Epidemiology and Quantitative Methods in Health, National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Angelica Baptista Silva

Department of Human Rights, Health and Social Diversity, National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Steffanie A. Strathdee

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