Epidemiology

Internal medicine

Public health

Pathology

Tropical medicine

Disease

Infection rate

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Pandemic

Outbreak

Surgery

Virology

Mortality rate

Case fatality rate

Betacoronavirus

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Attack rate

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Medicine

Environmental health

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic hit South America badly with multiple waves. Different COVID-19 variants have been storming across the region, leading to more severe infections and deaths even in places with high vaccination coverage. This study aims to assess the spatiotemporal variability of the COVID-19 pandemic and estimate the infection fatality rate (IFR), infection attack rate (IAR) and reproduction number ([Formula: see text]) for twelve most affected South American countries.

Infection fatality rate and infection attack rate of COVID-19 in South American countries