COVID-19 in Colombia and Venezuela: Two sides of the same coin

Abstract

Over the past two years the world and its different regions, including Latin America, have been suffering from the enormous burden and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Colombia and Venezuela have been greatly affected. Despite sharing historical and cultural roots and similarities, each nation has entirely different sanitary conditions, especially regarding infectious, tropical, and reemerging illnesses, including vaccine-preventable diseases. Such differences have increased especially during the past two decades...