Mac Margolis, Columnist

Venezuela’s Covid Toll Is About to Surge

A coming spike will lay bare how ineptitude and economic crisis have camouflaged the pandemic’s human impact.

February 16, 2021 at 10:00 AM UTC

Mac Margolis is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Latin and South America. He is the author of “The Last New World: The Conquest of the Amazon Frontier.”

Venezuela’s Covid-19 testing rate lags well below its neighbors.
Photographer: Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Getty Images South America

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Venezuelans had rare occasion to celebrate last week when a government directive cleared the way for hundreds of thousands of their compatriots in harm’s way to receive doses of Covid-19 vaccines.

Oh, wait.