COVID-19 and dengue, co-epidemics in Ecuador and other countries in Latin America: Pushing strained health care systems over the edge

Affiliations

• ¹ Universidad Internacional SEK, Center for Biodiversity, Emerging Diseases and Environmental Health, Master School of Biomedicine, Natural Sciences and Environment Faculty, Quito, Ecuador; Colombian Collaborative Network on Zika and Other Arboviruses (RECOLZIKA), Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia; Latin American Network of Coronavirus Disease 2019-COVID-19 Research (LANCOVID-19), Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. Electronic address: juancarlos.navarro@uisek.edu.ec.
• ² Universidad Central del Ecuador, Environmental and Territory Area, THC-FACSO, Quito, Ecuador.
• ³ Universidad Internacional SEK, Center for Biodiversity, Emerging Diseases and Environmental Health, Master School of Biomedicine, Natural Sciences and Environment Faculty, Quito, Ecuador.
• ⁴ Colombian Collaborative Network on Zika and Other Arboviruses (RECOLZIKA), Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia; Latin American Network of Coronavirus Disease 2019-COVID-19 Research (LANCOVID-19), Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia; Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia; Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. Electronic address: arodriguezm@utp.edu.co.