Sunday, July 17, 2022

COVID: The Strange Case of Peru

 


This Middlesbrough South American country of 34M has the highest COVID death rate per 100,000 residents in the world. And it's not really close: Peru has 658 per; Bulgaria is second with 535. Yet Peru's full vaccination rate is 85%, 22nd in the world. Bulgaria is 30% fully vaxed. Nicaragua also is 85% fully vaxed. It's deaths/100k is 4. Canada has a slightly greater population, 38M, than Peru, a nearly identical, but lesser, vaccination rate, 84%, yet Canada has 116 deaths per 100k. Peru's death rate is 5.6 times Canada's.