The brazilian tragedy: Where patients living at the ‘Earth's lungs’ die of asphyxia, and the fallacy of herd immunity is killing people.

• Monica Malta,
• Steffanie A. Strathdee,
• Patricia J Garcia

Affiliations

Monica Malta

Institute for Mental Health Policy Research (IMHPR/CAMH); Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; Department of Social Science, National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (ENSP/FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Corresponding author.

Steffanie A. Strathdee

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

Patricia J Garcia

School of Public Health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima Peru