Sars-cov-2 in the amazon region: A harbinger of doom for amerindians

Juan David Ramírez; Emilia Mia Sordillo; Eduardo Gotuzzo; Carol Zavaleta; Daniel Caplivski; Juan Carlos Navarro; James Lee Crainey; Sergio Luiz Bessa Luz; Lourdes A. Delgado Noguera; Roxane Schaub; Cyril Rousseau; Giovanny Herrera; Maria A. Oliveira-Miranda; Maria Teresa Quispe-Vargas; Peter J. Hotez; Alberto Paniz Mondolfi

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0008686

Sars-cov-2 in the amazon region: A harbinger of doom for amerindians

Juan David Ramírez
, Emilia Mia Sordillo
, Eduardo Gotuzzo
, Carol Zavaleta
, Daniel Caplivski
, Juan Carlos Navarro
, James Lee Crainey
, Sergio Luiz Bessa Luz
, Lourdes A. Delgado Noguera
, Roxane Schaub
, Cyril Rousseau
, Giovanny Herrera
, Maria A. Oliveira-Miranda
, Maria Teresa Quispe-Vargas
, Peter J. Hotez
, Alberto Paniz Mondolfi

Universidad del Rosario
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Universidad Internacional SEK Ecuador
Fiocruz Amazônia
Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas
Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne Andrée Rosemon
Université de Guyane
Santé Publique France
Wataniba Amazon Social Workgroup
Baylor College of Medicine
Academia Nacional de Medicina

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Abstract

As the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic contin-ues to expand, healthcare resources globally have been spread thin. Now, the disease is rapidly spreading across South America, with deadly consequences in areas with already weakened public health systems. The Amazon region is particularly susceptible to the wide-spread devastation from Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) because of its immunologi-cally fragile native Amerindian inhabitants and epidemiologic vulnerabilities. Herein, we discuss the current situation and potential impact of COVID-19 in the Amazon region and how further spread of the epidemic wave could prove devastating for many Amerindian people living in the Amazon rainforest.

Original language	English
Article number	e0008686
Pages (from-to)	1-10
Number of pages	10
Journal	PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Volume	14
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008686
State	Published - Oct 2020

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Ramírez, J. D., Sordillo, E. M., Gotuzzo, E., Zavaleta, C., Caplivski, D., Navarro, J. C., Crainey, J. L., Luz, S. L. B., Delgado Noguera, L. A., Schaub, R., Rousseau, C., Herrera, G., Oliveira-Miranda, M. A., Quispe-Vargas, M. T., Hotez, P. J., & Mondolfi, A. P. (2020). Sars-cov-2 in the amazon region: A harbinger of doom for amerindians. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14(10), 1-10. Article e0008686. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008686

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