nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210222-153853-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210222s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210222-153853-0 doi eng 342 23 Peluso Neder Meyer, Emilio Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-7500-0705 COVID-19 in Brazil: A Sick Constitutional Democracy Peluso Neder Meyer, Emilio Verfassungsblog 2021-02-22 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In the first half of January 2021, Brazil had already counted more than 200,000 deaths and 8 million people diagnosed with COVID-19. Throughout 2020, the responses from the federal government, which should have taken on a coordination role considering the federalised National Health Service (SUS, Sistema Único de Saúde), were confusing and inefficient. Doubts and scepticism spread by the federal executive undermined the work of governors and mayors and, mirroring the American example, contributed to increase the number of cases and casualties. CC BY-SA 4.0 Brazil COVID 19 Bustamante, Thomas Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-4493-0088 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/covid-19-in-brazil-a-sick-constitutional-democracy/ raw object