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haxxiy on 24 August 2021
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Barozi said:

Doubt I've seen this posted here but I found a nice research paper about excess deaths in many countries. There's also a nice table included.

https://elifesciences.org/articles/69336

Shame there's no data for Turkey as I expect that to be heavily undertracked. Many East European, Central Asian and Latin American countries seem to have much higher excess deaths than their official Covid data would lead you to believe. But also countries like Egypt (13 times higher excess deaths than reported Covid deaths) and South Africa (almost 3 times more) show quite a discrepancy.

Mmm. Looking at: Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Mexico. As many of you might know, these were the regions of the former Aztec and Inca civilizations and even today the countries with the highest level of Native American ancestry.

Past respiratory epidemics have also shown a disproportionally high mortality rate in Latin America. Then there's this.

It stands to reason to speculate Native American populations might be, even today, more genetically vulnerable to respiratory illness than others, perhaps a consequence of being isolated from coronaviruses, influenza, etc. for over ten thousand years.

Or it might be just a coincidence because these countries didn't have enough ICU beds. I know Peru didn't: just 1,800 in the entire country. By my rough estimates, it would have needed seven times as much if the two waves infected ~ 40% of the population each.