Latin America was ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, new cases and deaths are falling sharply.
By Samantha Pearson Close Samantha Pearson and Luciana Magalhaes Close Luciana Magalhaes Oct. 2, 2020 5:30 am ET SÃO PAULO—The Covid-19 pandemic has ravaged Latin America, killing more than 300,000 people, erasing years of social and economic gains and plunging millions back into poverty. But from Mexico to Brazil, a recent slowdown in new cases and fatalities is raising cautious hopes that the hard-hit region might be turning a corner.
Last week, there were eight patients at her hospital in need of an ICU bed. A month earlier, however, Dr. López said medical staff had to choose between 52 critically ill patients for just three available beds. The recent declines likely result from factors that differ widely from country to country and even city to city, they say.
While many European countries and some parts of the U.S. adopted a strategy of suppression to reduce the number of cases through severe social-distancing measures, this was impossible in much of Latin America, said Zulma Cucunubá, a researcher at Imperial College London. if { function loadCSS{function d{for;t?o.media=n||"all":setTimeout}var o=window.document.createElement,a=t||window.document.getElementsByTagName[0],i=window.document.styleSheets;return o.rel="stylesheet",o.href=e.trim,o.media="only x",a.parentNode.appendChild,d,o}window.loadCSS=loadCSS; } #g-LATAMVIRUS-box.ai2html_export { max-width: 700px; width:100%; margin: 0 auto; } .g-aiImg { margin-top: -1.2px; } .
In Mexico, Chile and Peru, the transmission rate—the number of people a carrier is likely to infect—is currently above one, indicating growth of the disease, according to the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London.
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