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Despite widespread COVID‑19 infection among Bolivia’s remote Tsimané and Moseten Indigenous groups, their mortality rate was the lowest ever recorded for any population or region, according to UC Santa Barbara anthropologist Michael Gurven, who has long studied these peoples. Gurven noted that the unexpectedly low fatality rate challenges the assumption that isolated communities with limited health‑care access would be especially vulnerable to the virus.

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