After one year, the preeminent characteristic of Covid-19 is the heterogenous impact with the nations of Europe and the Americas having at least 10X as many deaths as Asia, Africa, and Oceania with only a handful of nations escaping their regional patterns:
Does it seem plausible that every nation in East Asia had a perfect response and eliminated Covid while every nation in the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas failed utterly? Or is more likely that these results were "baked in" and all our hysteria has been in vain?
Part of the answer regarding South Africa must be their extraordinarily high HIV prevalence: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32637972/ 
HIV and risk of COVID-19 death: a population cohort study from the Western Cape Province, South...

HIV was associated with a doubling of COVID-19 mortality risk. While our findings may over-estimate the HIV-associated risk COVID-19 death due to residual confounding, people with HIV should be...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32637972/
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