›Peru has the world's highest COVID-19 death rate — and people are paying 1,000% markups on black-market oxygen tanks
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news08:01Peru has the world's highest COVID-19 death rate — and people are paying 1,000% markups on black-market oxygen tanksThe pandemic caused oxygen shortages around the world as hospitals ran out of supply and struggled to ke...ep up. Prices of oxygen skyrocketed in places like Peru, Brazil, Mexico, and India because they lack infrastructure and rely on oxygen cylinders, which are more expensive.