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Silent Catastrophe: Latin America is losing the battle against Covid-19
Vallarta Daily News ^ | 19 Jun 2021 | staff

Posted on 07/01/2021 1:22:06 AM PDT by blueplum

While the US and Europe celebrate a return to near-normal, the reopening of tourist routes and even put an expiration date on the use of masks, in Latin America it all seems like science fiction. Despite the illusion generated by the extension of vaccination, the pandemic continues to ravage the region with painful figures reported daily.

When the eyes of the world were on India, its dramatic mass cremations and its collapsed hospitals in its urban centers, in Paraguay, Suriname, Argentine, Uraguay, Columbia, Brazil, Peru and Chile - a silent catastrophe was brewing whose current figures are eight times more deadly than those in India. In Paraguay, for example, in the last 7 days, an average of 17.7 deaths per million inhabitants were registered while in India the rate was 2.11....

(Excerpt) Read more at vallartadaily.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: ccpvirus; covid19; latinamerica; pandemic
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article breaks it down by country
1 posted on 07/01/2021 1:22:06 AM PDT by blueplum
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a claim is made that Mexico has been underreporting by 60% and Brazil is misrepresenting the number of child deaths

https://news.yahoo.com/mexico-registers-351-376-excess-182805604.html

https://kvoa.com/coronavirus-coverage/2021/06/21/brazil-sees-thousands-of-young-children-dying-from-covid-19/


2 posted on 07/01/2021 1:23:57 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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How dare you?

Don’t you realize it’s all a fraud?
A fake pandemic to make us all set off metal detectors so that the XXXXXX, and groups B.........., and the I............, and maybe the CIA can control the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Do I need the sarcasm tag?


3 posted on 07/01/2021 1:52:16 AM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: Fai Mao

>> Do I need the sarcasm tag?

No, but you could certainly use a closing paren...


4 posted on 07/01/2021 1:55:23 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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>> Brazil sees thousands of children dying from SARS...

Really?

Were they left to starve?


5 posted on 07/01/2021 1:57:53 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Fai Mao

You need a strawman tag.


6 posted on 07/01/2021 2:28:21 AM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: blueplum

Why would children be dying of Covid in Brazil and nowhere else?
This topic has become so dichotomous and emotional/political that discussion has become useless.


7 posted on 07/01/2021 2:34:25 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: blueplum

OPEN THE BORDERS !


8 posted on 07/01/2021 2:50:49 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (The 2020 election was stolen from MY President Trump)
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To: blueplum

Interesting headline. I’ve long been under the impression that Latin America is losing the battle against just about everything.


9 posted on 07/01/2021 2:54:12 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: blueplum

The mass vaccination campaign in Chile seems to be yielding some success. The number of cases and deaths has been declining there since early June.

They have one of the highest vaccination rates in the world. 65% have got their first shot and 54% are fully vaccinated.

The main downside is that they’re using the Chinese Sinovac vaccine. Sinovac is much less effective at preventing infection than vaccines we’re using here in the USA. It’s rated over 90% effective though at preventing hospitalization or death.


10 posted on 07/01/2021 3:15:38 AM PDT by LuxAerterna
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“You need a strawman tag.”

I have seen each of those arguments made on this board.

Plus these:

The vaccine makes you magnetic (Set off metal detectors)
The whole COVID is a fraud, it doesn’t exist.
The vaccine is a plot to reduce the world population by 1/2 in two years.
The vaccine contains a micro tracking device
The vaccine causes the virus!

Frankly, such hysteria is just as bad as the “Wear two mask forever!” crowd.

I am not in anyway denying that this disease has not been politicized or wasn’t used for nefarious purposes. It isn’t the black death but is real and it has killed a lot of people (How many? I don’t know since the numbers appear to be manipulated)


11 posted on 07/01/2021 3:38:04 AM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: Alberta's Child

...except corruption.


12 posted on 07/01/2021 3:54:19 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: EEGator

“Why would children be dying of Covid in Brazil and nowhere else?”

Yes, that makes NO SENSE.


13 posted on 07/01/2021 3:57:27 AM PDT by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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As. Hear it directly, places like Brasil and Colombia relied heavily on chicom vaccines. Who knows what the hell the chicoms gave them, but I’ve heard they truly are experiencing a total disaster with covid and the shutdowns.


14 posted on 07/01/2021 4:04:09 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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Reporting FROM Mexico, and posting IN Mexico. Like many other places, people die... they always HAVE died. And loved ones are asked ‘if they want to put Covid’ on the death certificate. It is the ‘trend’, to die of Covid. Miraculously, because we now wear MASKS.. NO ONE has died of Regular Flu, Tuberculosis, Heart Disease, Diabetes or Cirrosis of the liver. So yeah, the SKY IS FALLING. If there was so much DEATH, why is there a housing crisis. Looks like there would be hundreds of empty apartments and abandoned houses. Not like it was when my momma said in 1918 that the black horse drawn hearses, waited in line at cemeteries to bury their dead. THERE IS NO CRISIS.


15 posted on 07/01/2021 4:11:01 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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I think you miss the nuance. Latins are prideful people. They don’t admit they have problems until they’re drowning in them and even then they’re downplayed. The headline is remarkable for its admission.


16 posted on 07/01/2021 4:50:30 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: jocon307; EEGator

it’s happening in Indonesia, too. Indonesia guesses it’s lack of knowledge and/or ‘pandemic fatigue’.

“Dr Aman Pulungan, head of Indonesia’s paediatric society, said weekly child deaths from COVID-19 rose to 24 last week from 13 in the previous week, many under five years old.Aman said paediatricians were already seeing cases of “long COVID” - debilitating and lingering symptoms months after infection - among Indonesian children.

He believed the rising infections among children was more likely pandemic fatigue and lack of knowledge...

https://news.yahoo.com/covid-19-rising-among-children-093926710.html


17 posted on 07/01/2021 4:58:10 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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What if the virus was created to kill more of certain racial groups or haplogroups?


18 posted on 07/01/2021 5:07:07 AM PDT by JoeRender
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more on Indonesia. This article blames pre-existings, plus malnutrition and delayed treatment to the point of actively dying, etc as the reason for child deaths. Maybe Brazil’s baby deaths are from similar reasons? Also since most of the children were below 6, maybe younger parents or poor castes relying on cultural remedies?:
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesia-set-to-have-worlds-highest-rate-of-child-deaths-from-covid-19


19 posted on 07/01/2021 5:47:55 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum

It sounds like a bunch of poppy cock.


20 posted on 07/01/2021 6:13:16 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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