International COVID-19 Megathread

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Big stuff going on in Paraguay.

People going to the streets to demand the ousting of their president due to his reckless behavior in regards the COVID-19 pandemic. Strong police response against the protesters.

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While some places are talking about a 3rd dose booster shot, some places don’t even have 20% of their population with a 1st dose. HOW is this going to be controlled on a global level, stopping variants to emerge, with this level of greediness and stupidity?

The countries that can afford tons of vaccines may think they’re assuring their protection by giving their population 3, 4 or even 5 vaccines, but this is an international issue. More resistant variants will emerge if they keep refusing to help low-income countries to get vaccinated and it will come back to bite them in their ass. This inequality is not just damaging for some, but to everyone. More vaccines AND health infrastructure for their application needs to be sent abroad instead of redundant domestic vaccinations. Soon these people will start taking about 4th doses…

% of population with at least 1 dose of the vaccine (Our World in Data):

UAE 84,93%
Portugal 83,16%
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Spain 77,52%
Denmark 75,56%
China ~75% (my estimate based on the reported 2 billion doses number)
Chile 74,83%
Ireland 73,23%
Canada 73,03%
Belgium 72,12%
France 71,03%
UK 70,25%
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Italy 69,83%
Netherlands 69,68%
Israel 67,66%
Sweden 67,45%
Germany 64,32%
Brazil 62,10%
Saudi Arabia 61,80%
Austria 60,63%
USA 60,50%
Argentina 60,49%
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Hungary 59,43%
Malaysia 58,25%
Greece 57,77%
Switzerland 56,41%
Turkey 55,89%
South Korea 55,25%
Japan 54,95%
Poland 50,78%
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Morocco 48,63%
Cuba 46,73%
Australia 45,10%
Colombia 43,95%
Mexico 43,88%
Taiwan 41,54%
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New Zealand 38,72%
India 34,17%
Jordan 33,25%
Bolivia 31,85%
Thailand 30,98%
Tunisia 30,89%
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Peru 29,95%
Russia 29,65%
Romania 27,30%
Uzbekistan 25,25%
Indonesia 21,87%
Venezuela 20,92%
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Iran 19,98%
Philippines 19,24%
Vietnam 16,92%
Pakistan 17,74%
South Africa 15,03%
Ukraine 12,11%
Bangladesh 10,61%
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Egypt 4,90%
Ethiopia 2,03%
Kenya 3,44%
Afghanistan 1,93%
Nigeria 1,21%
Tanzania 0,36%

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Top 3 antivaxx countries are Russia, USA and Germany. These are the main countries where you can see the vaccination speed has been compromised because of stronger internal campaign against vaccination, as you would expect them to be performing better in comparison to what similar countries are doing (Germany with Western Europe, USA with Canada or UK, Russia with Eastern Europe).

Look at how Germany is so behind in comparison to other Western European countries in people who had at least one dose applied (numbers by Reuters):

UAE 89,5%
Portugal 85,1%
Qatar 82,8%
Singapore 81,0%
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Spain 78,0%
Uruguay 77,3%
Chile 76,2%
Denmark 75,9%
Ireland 75,0%
Canada 74,8%
China 74,3% (Our World in Data numbers)
Belgium 73,5%
Finland 73,4%
Norway 72,9%
France 72,7%
UK 72,2%
Italy 71,6%
Bahrain 70,1%
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Mongolia 69,5%
Netherlands 69,2%
Cambodia 68,2%
Sweden 67,4%
Israel 66,4%
Brazil 65,7%
Germany 65,6%
Saudi Arabia 65,5%
Malaysia 64,3%
USA 63,0%
Argentina 63,0%
Austria 62,4%
Costa Rica 60,6%
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Hungary 59,5%
Turkey 59,4%
Switzerland 58,5%
Sri Lanka 58,3%
Japan 58,2%
South Korea 58,0%
Greece 57,3%
El Salvador 56,6%
Hong Kong 56,5%
Czechia 56,0%
Dominican Republic 54,5%
Morocco 52,5%
New Zealand 52,2%
Australia 51,4%
Cuba 51,2%
Poland 51,0%
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Cyprus 48,3%
Colombia 47,7%
Mexico 46,1%
Latvia 45,5%
Croatia 42,8%
Serbia 42,3%
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India 38,4%
Tunisia 37,3%
Kazakhstan 36,8%
Bolivia 35,4%
Jordan 34,8%
Thailand 33,6%
Peru 33,4%
Paraguay 32,5%
Russia 30,8%
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Honduras 28,4%
Romania 27,2%
Indonesia 24,7%
Georgia 22,7%
Iran 22,4%
Pakistan 21,7%
Venezuela 21,1%
Guatemala 20,9%
Lebanon 20,3%
Palestine 20,0%
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Nepal 19,3%
Zimbabwe 18,5%
Vietnam 18,1%
Belarus 17,2%
Bosnia and Herzegovina 17,2%
South Africa 17,0%
Jamaica 14,3%
Botswana 13,9%
Ukraine 12,6%
Bangladesh 11,7%
Algeria 11,6%
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Namibia 8,6%
Myanmar 8,2%
Gambia 8,2%
Senegal 7,2%
Nicaragua 7,1%
Egypt 6,2%
Mozambique 5,4%
Mauritania 5,4%
Ivory Coast 5,3%
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Togo 4,4%
Kenya 3,9%
Malawi 3,7%
Gabon 3,6%
Ghana 2,8%
Ethiopia 2,2%
Liberia 2,1%
Sierra Leone 2,0%
Afghanistan 2,0%
Sudan 1,5%
Nigeria 1,5%
Syria 1,4%
Cameroon 1,4%
Somalia 1,3%
Mali 1,2%
Yemen 1,0%
Benin 1,0%
Burkina Faso 0,5%
Haiti 0,3%
DR of Congo <0,1%

Antivaxxers per country (Morning Consult poll):

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Congratulations for Portugal for the highly efficient vaccination! With more than 85% of the population partially vaccinated, it’s only the 2nd country in the world to surpass that landmark, behind only UAE which is already at more than 91%.

85% is considered by many the target to reach in order to control the pandemic. Good to see countries reaching that number. The world has lots of catching up to do.

Shoutout to South Korea and Japan as well. They started way behind western countries, despite being high income ones but now they’re growing up fast on the charts, with South Korea reaching 64% and Japan 62%.

Just to remind, on Monday the numbers I posted indicated 58% for both of these countries. So the fact that they’re growing with a such fast pace indicates that the delay was probably in regards to obtaining the vaccines, which were initially way too concentrated to be distributed in US and then Europe.

Not coincidentally, you also see now fast growth from the high income Oceania countries, Australia and New Zealand. Which, like Japan and South Korea, took a looooong time before taking off but now are doing just that. New Zealand is 56% today and Australia 54%. Last Monday the numbers I posted were respectively 52% and 51%. We’re basically seeing the high income countries outside from US-Europe axis quickly grow up now.

Reuters

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LOL

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1441020329862864903

It’s just the way he found to stay in a New York hotel for weeks without working and all being paid by Brazilian taxpayers. Never in history I saw someone so repelled to doing work.