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One thing that data must suggest is that covid is still growing in most of Brazilian states

It's not that true. May was the peak of infection in some states, June in others and July in others. What people don't realize is before June numbers here were massively underreported.

In my state, Pernambuco, the outbreak started late March and its peak was in May. We are one of the states with the 5th highest mortality rate (6.6%) not something to be proud of. True my state is not one the richest but we have the THIRD highest ICU beds per capita in Brazil and the death-roll still that high, why? Because the outbreak here was much more overwhelming than what we think

Compare both graphs, this one shows daily reported cases:

This one shows reported deaths:

It's like we only started with proper testing now because there is less demand. During May there was so much demand for testing that state only tested obvious cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Fortunately, my state track how is SRAS infection going:

In orange we have people who tested positive for Covid-19. Week 10 was the first or second week of March I think. Week 32 might be last week. The peak of pandemic was from week 16 to week 22, months of April and May, since then SARS-CoV has been on steady decline and I really believe overall infection has been on declining ever since

Just a reflection: If we keep tracking 1k new positives cases a day when SRAS cases declined by over 92% since May, can you even imagine how bad was we doing months ago and we will never know? Wouldn't be surprised to discover the number of infected here is closer to half million than our official 100k