It is unclear how the coronavirus - what Bolsonaro called a "little flu" - managed to reach this remote part of the Amazon. He tore up the rich areas, then passed to the poorest. Now it is hitting indigenous communities who live in the suburbs and slums.
Here are some of the people we have met recently and their stories.
The doors on either side of the aircraft open, as hazardous materials doctors climb inside to reach the critically ill patients, throwing them into an ambulance. Manaus is not a city in which you want to be rescued - it is the city hardest hit in Brazil by the coronavirus - but it still offers hope to the most seriously ill in the Amazon region.
This flight brought two people from the river to Parintins, a town with a population of just over 100,000 people approximately 230 miles (370 km) away. They need the medical care that Manaus can provide. One of the patients, a man, is able to move with the help of doctors on a stretcher. The other patient's only movement, a woman, is the slow lifting of her chest.
Ambulances on standby carry both. The crew began cleaning and refurbishing the aircraft. This team never lost a patient in flight, although it had to intubate a flight.
Dr. Selma Haddad comes out of his protective clothing on the tarmac and inhales. "It's very hard. You carry a weight that you can't see. Every time I carry that weight."
Constant stream of grief
At the Parque Taruma cemetery, more than 1,500 graves have been dug since the pandemic arrived in the Amazon. Men and heavy machinery sometimes work at night to meet demand, opening large trenches as mass graves.
Five coffins that arrive in just two hours are placed in a mass grave.
Pedro Chaves is in mourning for his mother, angry that he has to wait until the trench is full before the coffin is covered. "We are here about 30 minutes waiting for other bodies," he said. "I just want to put my mom over there and finish this. My family doesn't need that."
Chaves says his mother died from complications from diabetes, not the virus. Others say that Covid-19 was not to blame for their losses. With so few tests, it is impossible to know for sure.
As a constant parade of angry and distressed locals crosses the cemetery, the workers sit in a corner, hammering makeshift crosses and grave boundaries together in the Amazonian humidity.
Indigenous Peoples Field Hospital
Across town at the newly built Gilberto Novaes Field Hospital, a flood of new patients is arriving. A dozen natives on the outskirts of the city stagger out of breath from ambulances in wheelchairs and directly to intensive care.
The ICU is frantic, full of sick people and those trying to save them.
Miqueias Moreira Kokama, chief of the indigenous community of Kokama, walks among the beds. He was appointed just two weeks ago when his father died of a coronavirus.
"I took my father to the hospital where he was intubated for 5 days," he says. "We now have 300 with symptoms and 30 in the hospital."
Deadly calm in the slums
In the Kokama community itself, the virus has emptied the streets. Resident Vanda Ortega Witoto points each house on the same road, checking the families who are now isolated.
In the next street, she explains that the dead silence comes from the fact that everyone is hospitalized.
At first, they felt that their distance from the city offered them protection. But then the first symptoms appeared and the poor sanitation of the slum helped the virus to settle.
Aid did not come, however, said Witoto, with local officials saying it was the federal government's duty to help Indigenous peoples and the federal government do nothing.
So when a parent coughed, suffered and couldn't get out of a hammock, she wore a mask and gloves to drive them to the hospital herself. "It was a very difficult time, exposing myself and seeking help for her."
Witito says that Bolsonaro "behaved in this pandemic by attacking our territory, expelling the indigenous peoples from their territories and opening up our lands to agro-industry".
At the end of the day, a moment of hope warms the community. Witoto's mother, Brazileia Martiniano Barrozo, has been released from the hospital and returns to the streets echoing the fireworks and applause from the neighbors.
A city taken by the rhetoric of the president
Virgilio Neto told us that he felt that "Bolsonaro's dream is to be a dictatorship but he is too stupid".