On “The Jab”: why was Latin America hit so hard? -Carlos Castillo-Salgado JohnsHopkins describes how the pandemic struck the region -VPazSoldan on why Peru has the highest per-capita covid-19 death rate -sarahmaslin on an unprecedented study in Brazil
WHY HAS Latin America been the region hardest hit by the pandemic? Carlos Castillo-Salgado of Johns Hopkins University blames the informal economy and the example set by Donald Trump. Tulane University’s Valerie Paz-Soldán explains why Peru has been affected the worst.of China’s CoronaVac vaccine in the Brazilian town of Serrana.
Alok Jha and Natasha Loder are joined by Emma Hogan, The Economist’s Americas editor. Runtime: 41 min
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