Bolsonaro, Isolated and Defiant, Dismisses Coronavirus Threat to Brazil (Published 2020)[Read more on Brazil’s Coronavirus cases and deaths.] RIO DE JANEIRO — As coronavirus cases and deaths mount in Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro has remained defiant, the last notable holdout among major world leaders in denying the severity of the coronavirus. Brazilians, he declared last week, are uniquely suited to weather the pandemic because they can be dunked in raw sewage and “don’t catch a
