I haven't followed it closely. They are Southern Hemisphere, so their coronavirus season has just ended (late winter/early spring). Their death rate is within normal range - probably well below New York, which I believe was the worst.
Other than that, there are local factors that alter death rates. Pollution, favelas, nursing home conditions, obesity. In Lombardy we had a bad, antibiotic resistant pneumonia season just before Covid-19 hit. Plus they had a terrible panic over there which studies showed increased the death rate considerably.
If Brazil is said to be 'out of control' it's probably 'cases' not deaths. And cases have come to be the red herring used by the media to keep the anxiety going.
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