A host of countries in Latin America are now inoculating against Covid-19 at a far higher rate than the U.S., with people eager to get vaccinated and largely trusting of vaccines
As vaccinations in the U.S. have slowed significantly from their peak, they have risen sharply in Latin America, with a host of countries now inoculating againstThe progress in Latin America is built on two factors that have gotten little attention: In many countries, people are eager to get vaccinated and largely trust vaccines, more so than in many richer countries,At the same time, vaccine supply problems are being slowly overcome. Far greater numbers of vaccines are now arriving from the U.
About half of the U.S. population has been vaccinated against Covid-19; a mobile vaccination site in New York City.In recent weeks, Brazil, which has 30% fewer people than the U.S., has been applying nearly 1.5 million doses a day, double the 750,000 or so daily doses in the U.S., according to Our World in Data. On a per-capita basis, the U.S. is currently vaccinating at half the rate of Mexico, and a third the rate of Peru, Colombia and Argentina.
by some measures. With 8% of the globe’s population, Latin America accounts for roughly a third of global deaths from the pandemic, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. Deaths and new cases have declined substantially in South America during the past two months, after a surge earlier this year. But now,is making inroads across the region, threatening a new surge in coming weeks. Mexico has already seen cases and deaths spike due to Delta.
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