Chart: COVID-19 Is Now Leading Killer In 5 Latin American Nations
Why are numbers so high in the region? Public health officials point to a number of underlying problems that let the coronavirus run amok.
COVID-19 has become the leading cause of death in 5 Latin America nations and the second most common cause in 6 others. The World Health Organization's "Americas Region," which stretches from the Canadian Arctic to Cape Horn in Chile, has been hit harder by the pandemic than any other part of the globe. The region currently accounts for 48% of the 1.65 million COVID deaths reported to WHO so far worldwide.
While the United States is a major contributor to that trend with more than 300,000 deaths, Peru's
