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Brazilian Congress probe reveals corruption and omissions during the pandemic
Today, in Brazil, the works of the COVID-19 CPI, a Senate probe in the Brazilian Congress, came to an end. The presentation of the 1,000+ pages report will be this Wednesday and final voting on October 26. The COVID CPI is a parliamentary commission to investigate supposed omissions and irregularities in federal government actions and spending during the current pandemic in Brazil. (Click here for several sources with details about the probe at the bottom of the page)
After that, the Senate will submit the findings to the appreciation of the Federal Public Prosecutor (PGR, acronym in Portuguese) office to pursue the criminal charges, although many think the PGR will not pursue it due to its subserviency to the presidency. And they did find lots of severe issues related to the administration of the COVID-19 efforts in the country, including the care provided to patients by a private health plan that used humans to test potential medicines without their consent and the ethical and due clinical process, abbreviated lives putting elderly patients in palliative care way before they were dying in order to save and make more money by freeing beds, and sending “covid kits” to their patients, even way after the content of the “kit” (hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, mainly) were proven ineffective or even damaging to many…
