The two presidents drove out 10,000 Cuban doctors and nurses. They defunded the region's leading health agency. They wrongly pushed hydroxychloroquine as a cure. The coronavirus was gathering lethal speed when President Trump met his Brazilian counterpart, Jair Bolsonaro, on March 7 for dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Mr. Bolsonaro had canceled trips that week to Italy, Poland and Hungary, and Brazil 's health minister had urged him to stay away from Florida, too. But Mr. Bolsonaro insisted, eager to burnish his image as the "Trump of the Tropics." His grinning aides posed at the president's resort in green "Make Brazil Great Again" hats. Mr. Trump declared he was "not concerned at all" before walking Mr. Bolsonaro around the club shaking hands. Twenty-two people in Mr. Bolsonaro's delegation tested positive for the virus after returning to Brazil, yet he was not alarmed. Mr. Trump had shared a cure, Mr. Bolsonaro told advisers: a box of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine , the unproven treatment that Mr. Trump was then promoting as a remedy for Covid-19 . "He said the trip was wonderful, that they had a great time, that life was normal at Mar-a-Lago, everything was cured, and that hydroxychloroquine was the medicine… Read full this story
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