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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">greetings from Brazil, which is (and has been for several months) the epicenter of the pandemic in Latin America. Unfortunately, we have remained stable at the peak of approximately 1k deaths and 35-40k new cases per
day, and there are no signs of improvement. Things may actually worsen, now that the general belief has somehow spread that isolation measures are no longer necessary (see yourself these picture of Rio de Janeiro´s beach in the last 2 weekends:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:PT-BR">
<a href="https://brasil.estadao.com.br/noticias/rio-de-janeiro,praias-do-rio-lotam-neste-domingo-mesmo-com-proibicao-por-causa-da-covid-19,70003419222">
https://brasil.estadao.com.br/noticias/rio-de-janeiro,praias-do-rio-lotam-neste-domingo-mesmo-com-proibicao-por-causa-da-covid-19,70003419222</a> and</span><span lang="EN-US">
<a href="https://twitter.com/rodrigo__c/status/1302643166160605185?s=20">h<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;background:white;mso-fareast-language:PT-BR">ttps://twitter.com/rodrigo__c/status/1302643166160605185?s=20</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:PT-BR">)</span><span lang="EN-US">.
But what is most worrying (and arguably a cause of this wide disregard for the health risks) is how the government has been dealing with the crisis: aside from President Bolsonaro´s self-professed skepticism of the threats posed by the virus, and the disposal
of two health ministers now replaced by an active-duty general who has agreed to allow the use of chloroquine for all COVID patients, we have witnessed an increasing separation of government policies from scientific evidence.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I have <a href="https://data-activism.net/2020/09/bigdatasur-covid-a-brazilian-cautionary-tale-on-pandemic-negationism-open-data-is-an-essential-safeguard-for-evidence-based-policy-making/">
shared on the blog</a> an overview of the situation and some thoughts about the role of open data as a measure of oversight on the measures taken by the government in this delicate moment. I also have a forthcoming article critically examining the impact on
the Brazilian pandemic scenario of the lack of an effective data protection framework, should that be of interest please message me privately (I am not allowed to put it out publicly yet).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Nicolo</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:PT-BR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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