haxxiy on 11 September 2020
It looks like Peru will be the worst-hit nation in the world when all is said and done:
Over 60,000 excess deaths already by the looks of it - about 0.2% of its population. Thankfully, the number of daily deaths and hospitalized people has been in a consistent decline for a while, so I suspect the virus is finally running out of available hosts.
Somehow, Peru cooked the perfect storm: the low number of ICU beds (1,600 compared to 46,000 in Brazil and 93,000 in the US) was certainly a determinant factor, but it's likely that so were other biological and social particularities we can guess but only speculate about their precise impact.
Studies in the upcoming years will be interesting and hopefully we'll learn something from them.
