Pandemic propels Brazil doctor to fame
(World News Brazil)

RIO DE JANEIRO, March 12, 2021 (AFP) – She still gets surprised when people want to hug her at the supermarket, but her studious media appearances analyzing the pandemic have suddenly made Dr. Margareth Dalcolmo famous in coronavirus-ravaged Brazil. Dalcolmo, a 65-year-old pulmonologist, was an unknown researcher at public health institute Fiocruz when Covid-19 arrived in Brazil in February 2020. But the soft-spoken expert has since made hundreds of media appearances on the health crisis, emerging as a comforting, almost motherly source of information in a country where disinformation and science-bashing are spreading as fast as the virus. It all started in March last year, when...