Other factors in Peru's COVID storm were an underfunded public health-care system, overcrowded living conditions and a huge informal economy. An ...

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Experts say Peru's healthcare system was underprepared, and lacks sufficient funding. There's also been shortage of oxygen needed to treat Covid ...

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by A Schwalb · 2021 · Cited by 108 — Possible explanations for poor outcomes are a fragmented and already overwhelmed public health sector, lack of infrastructure and specialized ...

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Their lack of access to health services, water and sanitation, as well as their high rates of poverty and child malnutrition, placed these ...

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Their lack of access to health services, water and sanitation, as well as their high rates of poverty and child malnutrition, placed these ...

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Complex reasons for high fatality · Informal economy · Fragmented health system · Barriers to social distancing · Approval of ivermectin.

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by E Villar · 2024 · Cited by 13 — Peru's macroeconomic success and moderate health security rating paradoxically combined with amongst the highest levels of reported COVID-19 mortality globally.

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by KN Cajachagua-Torres · 2022 · Cited by 21 — Our study suggests that the excess death rate during the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru may have been influenced by other factors besides COVID-19 incidence.

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by A Schwalb · 2021 · Cited by 108 — Lack of oxygen, hospitalization, and ICU beds continue to be shortcomings; more importantly, there is a scarcity of trained health professionals ...

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... COVID so bad in Peru was its dependence on imports. Like many middle-income countries, Peru doesn't produce much of its own medical supplies.

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