When it comes to treating pneumonia does it matter what country you are in?

When you’re poor, you’d better not be in Jamaica, or the US for that matter.

When you’re rich, there still are some countries with such poor infrastructure that you don’t want to be there. Jamaica comes to mind, but so do many countries in Africa.

Take a look here, there you’ll find a lot of data. Including some on pneumonia.

13% of the children under five in Jamaica who die, die from pneumonia. That is 2% of the deaths with children under5 years of age in the US.

In the U.S. you can at least go to an emergency room and they have to treat you.
For pneumonia that might be enough.
Worse is if you have tuberculosis, ..in many places in the world affordable/free treatment does not last long enough to get rid of the disease and it becomes resistant to all but the most powerful drugs.

Depends what hospital and what doctor in the US, same for Puerto Rico. I don’t know if Puerto Rico has the same laws for the ER as America; Puerto Rico is a US territory. I also don’t know the situation for the person who died that prompted you to ask this question. Did they go to the doctor? Hospital? Were they inpatient? Just ER? Any other underlying diseases or immune dificiencies. People probably die every day from pneumonia in the US.

More rural areas of the country might have less medical care. If it was bacterial pneumonia PR should have a sufficient choice of antibiotics. If it was viral that is another story.

I don’t know since I haven’t lived in Puerto Rico. All I got was arntibiotics and an inhaler and doc said I was borderling walking pneumonia.

@KNOWITALL So lucky you are! A popular man in Hillcrest San Diego barely started his trip in Puerto Rico when he fell into a cold and eventually died there in the hospital by pneumonia