Before the coronavirus pandemic, Brazil was a worldwide reference in vaccination, with infrastructure to inoculate up to 1 million people a day. However, due to logistics hiccups and a lack of supplies, the push to immunize Brazilians against Covid-19 has been much slower — at an average pace of just 179,000 jabs a day. But within this underwhelming scenario, Brazil’s richest and most populous state São Paulo has been a positive outlier, administering almost nine vaccines for every 100 inhabitants.
Data collected by The Brazilian Report shows that, if São Paulo were its own country, it would only trail...
