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sandensea

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5. Not for long.
Fri Jun 19, 2020, 06:36 PM
Jun 2020

As noted, they've topped the U.S. as far as new cases for 15 of the last 23 days.

And this, in a country with 1/8 as much per capita testing.

Why? It's not just Bolso's insolence: it's the crowded slum/semi-slum conditions much of the urban population lives in.



Duque de Caxias, a Rio suburb of about 1,000,000.

The above photo is not considered a slum in Brazil - merely a working-class neighborhood.

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