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A Government in COVID-19 Denial
Despite political risk to researchers and participants, new study provides first glimpse of pandemic’s impact on health care workers in Nicaragua, a country where secrecy reigns
“The true extent of the coronavirus crisis remains unknown in Nicaragua.
“It’s been kind of surreal,” said Jorge Huete-Pérez, senior vice president and director of the Molecular Biology Center at University of Central America in Managua, Nicaragua.
“On one hand, we would hear about the many COVID-19 deaths in Europe and the U.S. and lockdowns all over world, including in our neighboring countries, and yet in Nicaragua we had the authorities telling us that everything was under control and that COVID-19 was a problem only for foreign people. They have opted for a policy of denial and secrecy, which in the end has only exacerbated the crisis.”“
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““The Ortega government is increasingly authoritarian; his own wife is vice president and in charge of communications,” Feinberg said. “Even before COVID-19, they created their own alternate reality that ‘everything is fine’ in Nicaragua, and the government is on top of everything. Yet the people can see with their own eyes that friends are getting ill, going to the hospital and not coming back out.”“
Despite political risk to researchers and participants, new study provides first glimpse of pandemic’s impact on health care workers in Nicaragua, a country where secrecy reigns
“The true extent of the coronavirus crisis remains unknown in Nicaragua.
“It’s been kind of surreal,” said Jorge Huete-Pérez, senior vice president and director of the Molecular Biology Center at University of Central America in Managua, Nicaragua.
“On one hand, we would hear about the many COVID-19 deaths in Europe and the U.S. and lockdowns all over world, including in our neighboring countries, and yet in Nicaragua we had the authorities telling us that everything was under control and that COVID-19 was a problem only for foreign people. They have opted for a policy of denial and secrecy, which in the end has only exacerbated the crisis.”“
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““The Ortega government is increasingly authoritarian; his own wife is vice president and in charge of communications,” Feinberg said. “Even before COVID-19, they created their own alternate reality that ‘everything is fine’ in Nicaragua, and the government is on top of everything. Yet the people can see with their own eyes that friends are getting ill, going to the hospital and not coming back out.”“
