Despite Jair Bolsonaro’s defiant anti-vaxx posture, the vast majority of Brazilians are taking the shots as soon as they can get them. Vinncent reports
Brazilians getting vaxxed at the Tiradentes Palace in Rio de Janeiro this past August. Photo: ANDRE COELHO/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Last month, Facebook and Instagram removed one of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s trademark “live” broadcasts from their servers because he suggested there was a link between taking a COVID-19 vaccine and getting AIDS.
“Bolsonaro supporters are getting vaccinated, even if they might speak out against some aspect of the programs. Brazilians have a long tradition of getting vaccinated, for free, and the vaccinations are seen as a right, not a duty,” explains Natalia Pasternak, a microbiologist and president of Instituto Questão da Ciência. “This goes back to the end of Brazil’s dictatorship, a very audacious public-health-care system, and some very good immunization campaigns.
Renato is close to the ideal type of Bolsonarista — male, comfortably middle class, white, educated but outside the often-progressive urban cultural elite — and his social circle consists of a lot of other Bolsonaro voters. For this reason, he asked that his last name not be used in this article. “I just think Bolsonaro is wrong about this one, and a lot of people know it.
Illustration: Our World in Data So far, just over 75 percent of Brazilians have received at least one shot of a COVID vaccine, compared to 66.6 percent of people in the U.S. The percentage of Brazil’s population that is fully vaccinated — 57.6 percent — is also now higher than in America. Both numbers continue to rise steadily as less populated and poorer Brazilian states are still catching up with the economic powerhouses of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
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