Grupo de Investigaciones Microbiológicas - UR (GIMUR), Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Rosario. Bogotá, Colombia.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020 Oct 29;14(10):e0008686. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008686. eCollection 2020 Oct.
As the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic continues 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 widespread devastation from Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) because of its immunologically 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.
随着严重急性呼吸系统综合症冠状病毒 2 型（SARS-CoV-2）大流行的持续蔓延，全球的医疗资源已经捉襟见肘。如今，该疾病正在迅速在南美洲蔓延，在公共卫生系统已经薄弱的地区造成了致命的后果。由于其免疫脆弱的本土美洲原住民居民和流行病学上的脆弱性，亚马逊地区特别容易受到 2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）的广泛破坏。在此，我们讨论了 COVID-19 在亚马逊地区的现状和潜在影响，以及疫情进一步蔓延对生活在亚马逊雨林中的许多美洲原住民可能造成的毁灭性后果。
