Bolsonaro may be the world’s coronavirus skeptic in chief

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In cities across the world, we’re getting used to seeing a moving daily ritual take place. By evening, residents under lockdown take to their windows and balconies and clap, shout, and bang pots and pans to honor the medical workers on the front lines of the novel coronavirus pandemic. These scenes of solidarity have played out from tower blocks in China to the narrow lanes of Italian towns to the streets of New York City.