My brother just texted me, he got our mom an appointment on Sunday for the vaccine at the CVS half a mile from her house! He’d held off on getting her an appointment because the places that had spots open were 30 to 45 miles away, and we couldn’t see taking a sometimes incontinent 81 YO on what would essentially be a road trip.

I’m very pleased. My brother had been coming across as vaccine hesitant but he’s got an appointment for tomorrow and now mom on Sunday.

Note: If Orange Caesar was still president, we’d be in the middle of a shitshow, just like Brasil right now.

Brazil is experiencing a historic collapse of its health service as intensive care units in hospitals run out of capacity, its leading health institute, Fiocruz, has warned.

Covid-19 units in all but two of Brazil’s 27 states are at or above 80% capacity, according to Fiocruz.

In Rio Grande do Sul state there are no intensive care beds available at all.

bbc.com