Political discourse, denialism and leadership failure in Brazil’s response to COVID-19

Figures & data

Figure 1. Total deaths from COVID-19 per million people (March 2020 to March 2021). Source: Constructed from data available from Our World in Data: https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/tree/master/public/data (data downloaded 10 April 2021).

Figure 2. Residuals from Regressions 1and 2. The arrows indicate one standard deviation above and below the mean.

Table 1. Deaths per million as a function of underlying demographic vulnerability (obesity rate and percent of population over 64).

Dependent variable: Log of total reported COVID-19 deaths per 1 million (for countries with at least 50 deaths from COVID-19 at the time)	Regression 1 31 March 2020	Regression 2 30 June 2020
Obesity rate	0.076** (0.019)	0.063*** (0.017)
Proportion of the population above 64	.105* (0.040)	.064*** (0.04)
Constant	−3.403** (1.156)	−3.84*** (0.403)
N	26	96
Adjusted R-squared	0.490	0.531
Prob > F	0.000	0.000
Breusch-Pagan / Cook-Weisberg test for heteroskedasticityProb > chi2	0.479	0.116
Mean VIF	1.02	1.17

*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001 (standard errors in parentheses).

Figure 3. Factorial correspondence analysis representation from the Brazilian media corpus on coronavirus/COVID-19.

Figure 4. Sub-cluster from Bolsonaro cluster.