NY Times: Unprepared for the Worst: World’s Most Vulnerable Brace for Virus - Crowded camps, depleted clinics and scarce soap and water make social distancing and even hand-washing impossible for millions of refugees. By Hannah Beech and Ben Hubbard
A refugee camp in Bangladesh is so cramped that its population density is nearly four times that of New York City, making social distancing impossible. Clinics in a refugee camp in Kenya struggle in normal times with only eight doctors for nearly 200,000 people.
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Imagine how bad this could get in the third and fourth world's were no real Health Infrastructure exists to start with and living conditions are already horrible. Nobody really knows the real death rate sans all the fancy equipment like ventilators and such. It could easily reach the 10% level that the first SARS epidemic reached before it faded away.
It' hard not to think that millions of people are going to die from this virus.
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