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    A municipal health worker and an environmental military police officer carry the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine to an Indigenous hut in Manaus, Brazil. - REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

    Pastors in Brazil Telling Amazon Indians Covid Vaccine Will Turn Them into Alligators

    Medical teams working to immunize Brazil’s remote indigenous villages against the coronavirus have encountered ...

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    Anthony Boadle
    Indigenous Leader Sonia Guajajara of the Guajajara tribe. Reuters

    Anti-vaxxers Kill Brazil Indian Leader After She Gets Covid Vaccine. It Was Fake News

    Hours after Sonia Guajajara became one of Brazil’s first indigenous women to get a ...

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    Fabio Teixeira
    A patient gets to ambulance in Manaus, Brazil Amazonas state, which is short of oxygen

    Covid: Manaus, Inside the Brazilian Rain Forest, Begs the World for Oxygen

    Amazonas state in northern Brazil has admitted it is running short of oxygen to ...

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    Sign in Curitiba, Brazil, bus says: "Wear a mask."

    How a High-contact Culture Like Brazil Is Coping in a Covid World

    Christmas is coming. Like many people around the world, Brazilians envy North Americans for ...

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    B. Michael Rubin
    Ever since a 1904 revolt against the smallpox vaccine, Brazil has run extremely successful vaccination programs. Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

    Once Again Brazilians Reject a Vaccine, This Time Led by Their President

    The world is eagerly awaiting the release of several Covid-19 vaccines, but Brazilian President ...

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    Pedro Cantisano
    Drawings of the Yanomami spirit beings known as xapiri were projected onto Brazil's Congress buildings, in a historic first. © Adriano Machado/ISA

    Brazil Congress Gets Petition with 400 Thousand Signatures Against Yanomami Genocide

    A 439,000 signature petition calling on the Brazilian government to prevent the genocide of ...

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    Rio Carnaval's float - Tomaz Silva/Agência Brasil

    Rio Calls Off Carnaval and New Year’s Celebrations Till There Is a Vaccine for Covid-19

    There will be no Carnaval street parties in Rio de Janeiro next year. The ...

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    Douglas Correa
    The protestors in São Paulo rallied in support of Bolsonaro, with one demonstrator holding a sign saying "We are not guinea pigs"

    Brazilians Go to the Streets to Protest Against Chinese Covid Vaccine

    More than 300 Brazilians gathered on São Paulo’s main commercial thoroughfare on Sunday to ...

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    Local initiatives have emerged during the pandemic in the favelas | Gabriel Loiola

    How a Favela in Rio Is Dealing with Mental Health Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic

    Empty streets, full minds. The fear of the new coronavirus occupies the thoughts of ...

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    Thaís Cavalcante
    Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro meets American counterpart Donald Trump in Washington

    What the Brazilian President Can Teach Donald Trump About Getting Covid-19

    Donald Trump and his wife Melania have tested positive for Covid-19 and are now ...

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    Anthony Pereira and Matthew Flinders