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The Brazilian capital of the Amazonas state, Manaus, was a major hotspot for Covid in May. But after tens of thousands of deaths, the city is now seeing a drop in cases and deaths as the virus runs out of people to infect. ThePrint’s Sandhya Ramesh looks at these findings and what the costs of natural herd immunity are.
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Supplementary reading:
AP | Death and denial in Brazil’s Amazon capital
MIT Technology Review| A city in Brazil where covid-19 ran amok may be a ‘sentinel’ for the rest of the world
medRxiv | COVID-19 herd immunity in the Brazilian Amazon
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