Coronavirus: Ecuador Deaths Far Greater than Reported? Definitely.

In early April, I took a look at Ecuador via this LA Times article:

Over the last few days, several were wrapped in plastic and left on the streets. Others have lain unclaimed in hospitals and clinics that have been overwhelmed by infections. The city morgue is full.

The majority of the dead are believed to be victims of the virus, but nobody can say for sure how many. There has been little testing.

The country has confirmed 2,700 infections and 93 deaths — 60 of them in Guayaquil and its immediate surroundings. But municipal officials there said they have recovered at least 400 bodies in recent days.

Coronavirus: Low Numbers Infected, Don't Believe It

Why are there so few cases in Africa? That's a misleading question as I'm not going to discuss Africa, but I did run across two articles in the Los Angeles Times that looks in discrepancies between what one might find in various trackers and what actually might be happening on the ground.

This LA Times looks into Ecuador. I'm writing this article on Thursday, April 2nd. At the time, Worldometer had the number of cases in Ecuador at 3,163 and the total deaths at 120. The article specifically looks at the port city of Guayaquil, which has a population of 2.8 million.