Guayaquil Ecuador Coronavirus Update:
Video title, translated: “Guayaquil, one of the areas of Ecuador most affected by coronavirus, cannot cope with the corpses”
[Guayaquil, una de las zonas de Ecuador más afectadas por coronavirus, no da abasto con los cadáveres]
Univision News, April 5, 2 minute YT video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIE7A8PTAzs
“They are recovering 150 bodies per day, compared to the normal 30 from other causes” (before the epidemic).
(Guayaquil’s population is 3 million, more than half in crowded slums)
Guayaquil is Covid-19 “in the wild,” with little or no modern medical care available. Hospitals are overrun. Sick people wait for days outside the few hospitals for a bed, and are told to just return home (to get better, or to die.)
End stage Covid-19 is BRUTAL without palliative meds: morphine++ etc. You slowly suffocate and drown in your own pink frothy lung fluids. Most Ecuadorians dying of CV die at home. Hospitals have collapsed, there are virtually no ventilators or ICU beds or staff in the First World meaning.
Those pushing for “herd immunity” via “let it run” aka “It’s just the flu” should watch the news reports from Guayaquil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIE7A8PTAzs
Just google or Youtube search “Guayaquil, Ecuador” for a Coronavirus reality check. This is a huge story around Latin America. And they are just starting in Guayaquil, they are about where Northern Italy was a month ago. It’s getting worse and worse by the day.
And it’s not lost on the news anchors (in Spanish) that the numbers in Colombia and other South American countries are just a couple weeks behind Guayaquil, “The Gateway to the Pacific Rim.”
The recent outbreak is blamed on crews from ships from China, and also Spanish travelers “bugging out” to their Ecuador 2nd homes.
I’ll tell you what. Why don’t you and Danny from TN go find a nice I populated area declare independence and stop bothering the rest of us.
Meanwhile in NY deaths are down and there was a ton of discharges from the hospitals in NYC this weekend.
But let’s look at a village in remote Ecuador to fear monger.