“Epidemics are not democratic at all,” said Diego Armus, a professor of Latin American history at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. The phenomenon is especially stark in Latin America, the most unequal region in the world behind sub-Saharan Africa. Big cities in Brazil — the epicenter of Latin America’s outbreak — have seen a similar dynamic. As more of the poor fall sick, the hospitals that serve them are emerging as some of the most stretched. Sonia Sanchez spent her last week of life on a ventilator at Kennedy Hospital.

Source: ABC News May 29, 2020 15:11 UTC