I've been keeping track of deaths per million chart on a daily basis and Brazil just keep getting worse:
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=40..latest&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=new_deaths_per_million&Metric=Confirmed+deaths&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=IND~USA~GBR~CAN~DEU~FRA~BRA~RUS
Screenshot of the chart above: https://i.imgur.com/UZgCzWh.png
https://balkaninsight.com/2021/03/26/democracy-digest-hungar...
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/02/coronavir...
The Fourth Surge Is Upon Us. This Time, It’s Different. A deadlier and more transmissible variant has taken root, but now we have the tools to stop it if we want.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/03/fourth-su...
Also, it seems that much more younger people are dying/more sick there.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/29/americas/brazil-covid-you...
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/24/americas/brazil-youth-cov...
0 - People who try to respect the rules of society and do the right thing while everybody else is disrespecting rules are seen as losers (trouxas). This creates a vicious cycle where you don't do the right thing because nobody else does the right thing. This is a huge problem with the Brazilian society, and affects the Covid problem more than people want to admit.
1 - Many many Brazilians are super individualist and egocentric yet they think they are warm and social. They have zero sense of community and society. They often criticize other countries for being too individualist, but they just don't understand that their "warm" behavior is superficial at best, hypocrite I'd say. Of course not every Brazilian is like this, I would like to believe I am not.
2 - The president Jair Bolsonaro is a complete idiot 10x worse than Trump who is still somewhat negating Covid. He still recommends a bunch of medications that have zero effects on Covid, he doesn't wear a mask, etc. Seriously, if you think Trump mishandled the pandemic you should see Bolsonaro...
3 - There is a strong cult for Bolsonaro kinda like there is a strong cult for Trump in the US. If our lord and savior Bolsonaro says I shouldn't wear a mask, then I won't (/s). And if I get sick, I will take those medications that won't help me at all before looking for help. Bolsonaro has a lot of power over certain religions (a significant portion of the population) and a ton of religious leaders keep spreading his words. Bolsonaro also does the "the media is lying" thing which makes people not believe that the situation is actually bad.
4 - A lot of people who get sick decide to insist on the Bolsonaro Covid Kit. So they spent like 1 week fucking their kidneys and then when they realize it's only making them worse they decide to get real help at a hospital, and that's too late. When they get there they are already compromised. Some people even need kidney transplants due to the Covid Kit they take...
5 - A lot of Brazilians think they are doing social distancing while they are not. They open exceptions like "I just see my mom and my sister". Well, your sister just sees you and her mother in law, who sees just her other child, who sees just their friend, who just goes to the church once per week, etc. When you realize, there's a chain going on over the entire population. The graph may not be as connected as it was before, but you can still very quickly walk through it to reach anybody.
6 - People put the blame on everything for Bolsonaro and forget to look at themselves and see what they could be doing wrong.
7 - The economic situation of the country was already bad. The lockdown thing makes the poor extremely more vulnerable. A lot of people simply can't afford to do lockdown otherwise they will die of hunger.
Note that I didn't mention vaccines. While Brazil is behind there, it is debatable if there is any possible vaccine plan that would make much a difference there yet. Soon though vaccines will become an issue in deaths around the world. (it already is a factor in a few countries, but most countries just don't have enough vaccines total for it to make a difference)