Peru was the first country to achieve sufficient progress in tuberculosis (TB) control to exit the TB-80, the group of 22 countries with 80% of the global TB burden. The Peruvian TB control program became the best in the world. In the 1990s, the death rate of the Peruvian cholera epidemic was the smallest in the history of this terrible disease. As with TB and cholera, I thought Peru would beat COVID-19...