{"id":15110,"date":"2021-11-20T16:17:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T21:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=15110"},"modified":"2021-11-20T16:17:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T21:17:01","slug":"one-of-the-worlds-poorest-countries-has-one-of-the-worlds-lowest-covid-death-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=15110","title":{"rendered":"One Of The World&#8217;s Poorest Countries Has One Of The World&#8217;s Lowest COVID Death Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of the end of April, only 254 deaths were attributed to COVID-19 in Haiti over the course of the entire pandemic. Why has the death rate been so low?<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2021\/05\/04\/992544022\/one-of-the-worlds-poorest-countries-has-one-of-the-worlds-lowest-covid-death-rat\">One Of The World&#8217;s Poorest Countries Has One Of The World&#8217;s Lowest COVID Death Rates<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>article mentions a few possible reasons (population is young, avg. age ~23.\u00a0 houses tend to be more open.\u00a0 but i wonder if they were able to prevent it from arriving from outside, possibly tight testing and such at entry points?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of the end of April, only 254 deaths were attributed to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[169,973],"class_list":["post-15110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-covid-19","tag-haiti","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}