Resilience Against the Covid-19 Pandemic among Indigenous Kichwa Communities in Ecuadorian Amazonia

Anders Sirén; Michael Uzendoski; Tod Swanson; Iván Jácome-Negrete; Emil Sirén-Gualinga; Andrés Tapia; Alex Dahua-Machoa; Aymé Tanguila; Eugenia Santi; Dionicio Machoa; Dixon Andi; Daniel Santi

doi:10.20944/preprints202011.0556.v1

How to cite: Sirén, A.; Uzendoski, M.; Swanson, T.; Jácome-Negrete, I.; Sirén-Gualinga, E.; Tapia, A.; Dahua-Machoa, A.; Tanguila, A.; Santi, E.; Machoa, D.; Andi, D.; Santi, D. Resilience Against the Covid-19 Pandemic among Indigenous Kichwa Communities in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Preprints 2020, 2020110556 (doi: 10.20944/preprints202011.0556.v1). Sirén, A.; Uzendoski, M.; Swanson, T.; Jácome-Negrete, I.; Sirén-Gualinga, E.; Tapia, A.; Dahua-Machoa, A.; Tanguila, A.; Santi, E.; Machoa, D.; Andi, D.; Santi, D. Resilience Against the Covid-19 Pandemic among Indigenous Kichwa Communities in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Preprints 2020, 2020110556 (doi: 10.20944/preprints202011.0556.v1).

Abstract

There has been very widespread contagion of covid-19 in Kichwa indigenous communities in Ecuadorian Amazonia, but the peak of contagion has already passed, and total mortality has been remarkably low. The Kichwa people themselves typically attribute this to the widespread use of medicinal plants.

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Resilience Against the Covid-19 Pandemic among Indigenous Kichwa Communities in Ecuadorian Amazonia

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