In Brazil’s raging pandemic, domestic workers fear for their lives – and their jobs

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira, Dartmouth College

(THE CONVERSATION) Brazil has emerged as one of the worst-hit countries in the coronavirus crisis, with hundreds of thousands of cases affecting people from all backgrounds. But in the early weeks of the pandemic, in March, many victims of the disease had a similar profile: a maid infected by her employer.The first confirmed COVID-19 patient in Brazil’s northeastern Bahia state was a woman recently returned from Italy. She infected her maid, who then infected her own 68-year-old mother. On March […]

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