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Brazil: Only one in three severely ill coronavirus patients recovers, study shows.

The mortality rate for these patients is 66%, a very high number when compared internationally and reflects the precariousness of the country's health system.

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247 - Only one in three severely ill coronavirus patients (who are intubated in Brazilian ICUs) recovers and manages to return home, according to a survey by the Brazilian ICUs Project, from the Brazilian Association of Intensive Care Medicine (Amib) and Epimed - a tool for analyzing hospital data and performance. 

The mortality rate for these patients is 66%, a very high number when compared internationally and reflects the precariousness of the country's health system. Compared to other countries, it is a high rate. In the United Kingdom, for example, it is 42%, and in the Netherlands, it reaches 44%. On the other hand, in New York City (the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States) it is 88%.

The research collected information between March 1st and May 15th in 450 hospitals across Brazil, involving 13.600 intensive care unit beds.

The information is from the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo.