A document revealed by BBC News Brasil showed that the governments of Amazonas state and capital Manaus made official requests for azithromycin, chloroquine, and ivermectin — drugs with no proven efficacy against Covid-19 — while the region’s health system collapsed under the weight of an oxygen shortage.
Requested by the Senate’s Covid-19 hearings committee, the document shows that the pleas for drugs occurred between January 5 and 14. Dozens of Manaus residents died from Covid-19 during the period, many of them suffocating due to a lack of oxygen.
Some local health officials even blamed the region’s meltdown due to a lack of the so-called “early treatment” against the coronavirus, consisting of a cocktail of unproven drugs backed by the federal government.
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