What is really happening in South America with the coronavirus?

Along with India, South America is the special watchdog with respect to the spread of the pandemic, with eyes focused above all on Brazil. The numbers, however, tell a different story

(photo: Leandro Ferreira / Fotoarena / Sipa Usa) Together with India, South America is a special observation when it comes to the new coronavirus pandemic. In particular, the focus is mainly on Brazil, whose president's attitude towards the pandemic, especially in the early stages, did not help to contain it. Looking at the data collected and made available by Our World in Data, it turns out, however, that there are countries in which the situation relating to infections is worse than in Brazil. Of course, it always depends on whether you look at the absolute numbers or the incidence: given half the population of South America lives in Brazil, absolute numbers will always see Brasilia excel. In this infographic, Wired has chosen to represent both:

body.isDesktop .tableauPlaceholder {height: auto! Important;} body.isDesktop .tableauWrapper iframe {height: auto! Important ;;}. TableauWrapper> p { line-height: 0; margin: 0! important;} The curve shows the 7-day moving average of the new cases, absolute numbers that allow you to monitor the progress of the pandemic. The map, on the other hand, gives an account of the incidence per million inhabitants over the last 7 days. A darker color indicates a higher value. The map also works as a filter: by clicking on a country, the graph will show the trend of infections in the selected country.

As can be seen from the map, Uruguay is the nation of South America that is registering the greatest incidence. This is over 3 thousand cases per million inhabitants. Of course, in absolute numbers they are just over 11,000, nothing compared to the 250,000 Brazilians, where the incidence is also 60% lower than that of Uruguay. Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Paraguay also have a higher incidence of infections than Brazil.

Using the map as a filter and comparing the curve of infections in these countries, it can be seen that Brazil is that in which the decline in infections began earlier. In these parts the curve bent at the end of March. And in just over a month, we have gone from 100 thousand daily cases on 25 March to 24 thousand on 3 May (database update date as we write).

From here to say that the situation is under control , of course, there is some. But when Italy began with the reopening on April 26, there was an incidence of infections higher than that seen in Brazil last Monday: 142.49 cases per million inhabitants in Rome, 115.19 in Brasilia.

Obviously, this is not the only parameter to take into consideration. Above all, the ability of the health system to withstand the shock wave of infections is of importance. And already in mid-January there was talk of a lack of oxygen in Brazilian hospitals. It also affects the progress of the vaccination campaign. Yes, vaccines: how are things going from this point of view in South America?

body.isDesktop .tableauPlaceholder {height: auto! Important;} body.isDesktop .tableauWrapper iframe {height: auto! Important ;; } .tableauWrapper> p {line-height: 0; margin: 0! important;} Also from this point of view, Uruguay is the country that is administering the largest number of vaccines compared to the population, even if the inoculation campaign began only after mid-February.

Chile, which also started with an aggressive vaccination campaign that had led it to vaccinate 40% of the population as early as the beginning of April, with only Israel and Great Britain able to do better, has slowed down the administration. And it is facing a second wave, linked according to experts to several factors: the spread of variants of Sars-Cov-2, the beginning of the bad season, the relaxation of social distancing measures and the fact that the most widespread vaccine, the Chinese Sinovac, fully unfolds its effects only after the recall. While other vaccines, such as Pfizer-Biotech, offer partial protection already after the first injection.

Brazil, to return to the starting point, is instead the third country in South America for the incidence of doses administered. In the last week there were just under 19 thousand per million inhabitants, just under 3 million in absolute numbers. Which means that, in the last week, one in 70 Brazilian people received the vaccine. The road to immunization remains long here too.

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