I don’t disagree with anything you suggested, and I will also add, that smaller countries probably had a lot less international travel, and the especially rural parts probably don’t see many outsiders at all, so they may have just avoided most of it by hiding in plain sight.
Comment on How did Third World countries handle the Covid Pandemic?
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Having looked at this table, it would seem that western countries are at the top of the list when sorted by deaths per million.
However, I don’t think the poor countries even had the resources to collect realistic statistics nor the will to report them honestly. I would only use this table for comparing similar pairs of countries against each other. Comparing wealthy contents with poor ones doesn’t appear to make much sense.
My guess is that poor countries handled it badly, and these statistics don’t even begin to tell how bad it was. Then again, what can you expect when you don’t have many hospitals, nor the money for vaccinating everyone.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
The western countries don’t even have realistic statistics.
The estimates for deaths per million are vastly different than confirmed deaths per million. After 2021-22 we basically stopped testing.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s a lot of guesswork here which could be avoided by not contributing the things you do not know.
There was a programme in place to provide vaccinations to developing countries, so they didn’t get left behind. Not all developing countries lack in hospitals or space, nor did it cost much to vaccinate when the doses were provided for free.