Excluding microstates, Uruguay currently has the highest rate of daily reported Covid cases in the world - despite having vaccinated nearly 50% of their population - and the current seasonal wave has not yet peaked:
Back in the fall, Uruguay was universally praised for having defeated Covid with the credit being given to their "high-trust" and egalitarian social order.
Compared to the rest of South America, Uruguay certainly had done better;
Unfortunately, with accelerating cases and mortality, Uruguay is not catching up to their neighbors.
It really does appear that the impacts of Covid can be delayed but not prevented, no matter what interventions are applied:
Current case counts being dramatically higher than their neighbors, Uruguay's mortality will continue to close the gap to the rest of South America.
Notice also that Paraguay, Suriname and Guyana have seen a recent acceleration.
Covid comes to everyone, eventually.
Finally, thus far, there is no correlation between share of population vaccinated and current rates of Covid transmission.
With reported efficacy, you would think the effect would be obvious by now: shouldn't Chile and Uruguay be doing much better than their neighbors?
If there's any correlation in South America, currently, it is showing that higher rates of vaccination correlate to higher case counts.
Look at Paraguay and Uruguay: why is Uruguay doing so much worse?
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