COVID-19 Numbers Are Bad In Ecuador. The President Says The Real Story Is Even Worse

Enrique Ortiz/AFP via Getty ImagesPatients are treated for COVID-19 at a field hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador.Ecuador has one of the highest rates of COVID-19 in all of Latin America – with 10,128 cases and 507 deaths in a country of just 17 million people.

that in the first 15 days of April, 6,703 people had died from either COVID-19 or natural causes. Previous to the coronavirus outbreak, he said, the monthly figure was around 1,000.And Interior Minster María Paula Romo has admitted that the true death count is higher but blamed a lack of widespread testing for the discrepancy. Even President Lenín Moreno has dismissed the official figures.

Dr. Eduardo Herdocia, who is just 18 months out of medical school, says he is currently taking care of about 200 patients whom he believes are infected with coronavirus, based on their respiratory symptoms. But due to lack of testing, only about two dozen have been diagnosed as positive. Because Guayaquil's hospitals are overflowing with confirmed CV patients, Herdocia makes house calls.

"It's very hard to tell them to stay home," said Dayanna Monroy, a TV journalist in Guayaquil, who says many parts of the city bustle with people and traffic.Due to bottlenecks in collecting the dead, people were wrapping the bodies of deceased relatives in plastic and bed sheets and, in some cases, moving them outside when the bodies began to stink in Guayaquil's very hot climate. So the bodies lay on the streets for days.

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Extremadamente angustioso y desgarrador. Oraciones por Ecuador. Extremely distressing and heartbreaking. Prayers for Ecuador.

rt4gan COVID19 love black and brown people. Lifestyle and culture are a big draw for the virus.

My god!

They are all dressed very nicely though !

Powerless to stop a fake virus?

COVIDIOT COVID19 And yet, no mention will be of the economic destruction that the world bank, IMF, the US companies and governments did to Ecuador.

The corruption and a weaken public system have exacerbated this situation.

StevenTDennis Covid

Not to be too depressing but aside from the date and attendant modernization in communications the results of this virus could be a revisiting of the plague of medieval times. LA's homeless communities have it present among one or more NOW?!?

And NPR believed Ecuador without a second guess.

Hm, so how long before House Dems argue we need to take in Ecuadorian refugees?

This is the future if we remove social distancing. StayHomeOhio

But Georgia & Florida beg to differ

DylanRatigan ...they thought the asylum and extradition cooperation would protect them...

milenaac It is south America

The Great Culling will continue another 12-18 months. TheGreatCulling

sherylkahn Geographically speaking, this strongly suggests COVID19 won't be dissuaded by summer temperatures as BenedictDonaldMD claimed

leeiams

Just tell them it’s all conspiracy by the opposition party leaders and media. While you are at it,tell them this is nothing but flu.

Damn

Does that really say “abandoned corpses in streets...”

My son in law has family down there 😢

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