One Year of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Brazil: A Political and Social Overview

Matheus Negri Boschiero; Camila Vantini Capasso Palamim; Manoela Marques Ortega; Renan Marrichi Mauch; Fernando Augusto Lima Marson

doi:10.5334/aogh.3182

One Year of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Brazil: A Political and Social Overview

Volume 87 (2021): Issue 1

By: Matheus Negri Boschiero , Camila Vantini Capasso Palamim , Manoela Marques Ortega , Renan Marrichi Mauch and Fernando Augusto Lima Marson

Open Access

|May 2021

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