re: Will COVID decimate 3rd world countries?

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Jorge Wated, who heads a government task force charged with collecting and burying bodies in Guayaquil, the epicenter of the outbreak, said 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.

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"Many of these patients need hospital care but the hospitals – the whole health-care system – is full," says Herdocia, who is 26. He says that with the help of relatives or taxis, "they drive around the city all night looking for a hospital but there's no room."

Herdocia can't keep up with all the phone pleas for medical attention from his patients. By the time he arrives at their homes, some of them have already died.

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