Vaccine line in São Paulo. Photo: Nelson Antoine/Shutterstock
Welcome to “Number of the Week,” where we choose a single figure that helps us understand what is going on in Brazil. This week, the effort by the city of São Paulo to make up for delays in CoronaVac booster shots, in what the local government is calling a ‘vaccine D-Day.’
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