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South American Mercosur countries 8/14/2020
The Mercosur (or Southern Common Market) countries (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercosur) here include Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile and I have added Venezuela.
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Observations:
- Chile recorded its first confirmed case Feb 23, followed by Brazil on Feb 26.
- Chile and Brazil followed by Argentina lead in terms of both confirmed cases and deaths.
- For the ratio deaths/confirmed cases Brazil takes the lead followed by a dead heat between Uruguay and Chile followed, in turn, by Argentina.
- In terms of the ratio deaths/confirmed cases:
- Brazil, Argentina and Chile passed their peak in the April May time-frame.
- Then in June Chile started rising again, passed the first peak and continued rising.
- Uruguay has remained fairly constant since May.
- Argentina and Paraguay appear to be seeing an increase again in August.
- Venezuela appears to have rapidly reduced the ratio and held it steady at about 1% since May. It also appears to have the lowest reported deaths. This is strange given the concerns over the Venezuelan Health care system and the impact of international sanctions (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Venezuela)
- Looking at the daily confirmed cases per million population in Andean Mercosur countries , Chile passed its peak peak in June. For the other countries, the daily confrmedi confirmed cases are still increasing or flat.
South American Andean countries 8/14/2020
The sub-regions are roughly from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_of_Latin_America with Venezuela added.
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