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Fernando Sacoto

Fernando Sacoto, MD, MPH, is a health systems and policy consultant with experience in Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras and Ecuador. He is the president of the Ecuadorian Society of Public Health.
 

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Ecuador’s fragile response to COVID-19

As Ecuador’s limited response to COVID-19 has hit the news in Europe and the USA, the country is still struggling to understand how everything may get even worse. By April 4, 2020, with 3,465 confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country,  there were 172 confirmed COVID-19 deaths and another 147 deaths due to acute respiratory failure, most of them...