Brazil's Covid-19 resurgence is pushing hospitals to overflowing

Brazil has blown past a series of grisly milestones, repeatedly setting new records for most Covid-19 deaths per day.

Over the past month, the South American nation has blown past a series of grisly milestones, repeatedly setting new records for most Covid-19 deaths per day. In the past week, it set another record: 12,818 new deaths and more than 464,000 new cases, according to Johns Hopkins University figures -- signs of a viral spread outpacing even that of the United States, the only country in the world harder hit by the pandemic in absolute numbers. On the outskirts of São Paulo, the crisis is turning things upside down for the small Dr. Akira Tada Emergency Hospital. In normal times, doctors there would stabilize critically ill patients and then send them on to bigger and better-equipped hospitals with intensive care units (ICUs).