The Maracana campaign hospital is seen next to the Maracana stadium amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil September 16, 2020. Picture taken September 16, 2020. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - As COVID-19 patients flooded Rio de Janeiro's public health system from early April to late May, Dr. Pedro Archer found himself making gut-wrenching decisions.
People struggling to breathe needed ventilators, he said, but there weren't enough to go around; those with a slim chance of recovery were passed over.
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