Brazil's struggles with COVID-19 continue. The country, troubled by new COVID-19 variants, reported a new record high of 4,249 deaths on Thursday. Dr. Alice Hyun-Kyung Tan, an internist at MizMedi Women's Hospital in Seoul, shared her insights, saying that these variants are more transmissible than the wild type or D614G variants, so any decrease in restrictions will cause an increase in spread.