“Brazil is the only country in the world where the Minister of Health will fall for having decided to fight the Coronavirus,” a leftist politician said.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro fired the country’s top public health official on Thursday, putting an end to a month-long internal dispute over the far-right leader’s efforts to downplay the coronavirus pandemic as a hysterical hoax.
Mandetta, by contrast, is a physician who had become a leader of the more reasoned group of Brazilian officials and politicians advocating for drastic actions to limit the spread of the virus. Mandetta’s appointment to Bolsonaro’s government was one of the few seen as relatively sensible and credible. He possessed relevant experience and didn’t seem to regard himself as an enemy of science or basic reason. That turned out to be his fatal flaw.
The positive response to Mandetta’s handling of the crisis has reportedly irked Bolsonaro for nearly a month, as the Brazilian public largely sided with the health minister. Surveys showed that a majority said they would follow social distancing guidelines, and Mandetta’s approval rating soared to 82% in early April, according to the Brazilian polling firm Datafolha, an 18-point rise driven in part by Bolsonaro supporters.
Over the weekend, Mandetta said that Bolsonaro’s “mixed messages” on the virus and social distancing had left Brazilians unsure of “whether to listen to the health minister or to the president” after Bolsonaro had been filmed visiting a bakery.
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