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

Juan Carlos Navarro^{a b c d}✉, Jazzmín Arrivillaga^e, José Salazar-Loor^a, Alfonso Javier Rodriguez-Morales^{b d f g h}✉

1. ^aUniversidad Internacional SEK, Center for Biodiversity, Emerging Diseases and Environmental Health, Master School of Biomedicine, Natural Sciences and Environment Faculty, Quito, Ecuador
2. ^bColombian Collaborative Network on Zika and Other Arboviruses (RECOLZIKA), Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
3. ^cLatin American Network of Coronavirus Disease 2019-COVID-19 Research (LANCOVID-19), Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. Electronic address: juancarlos.navarro@uisek.edu.ec
4. ^dLatin American Network of Coronavirus Disease 2019-COVID-19 Research (LANCOVID-19), Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
5. ^eUniversidad Central del Ecuador, Environmental and Territory Area, THC-FACSO, Quito, Ecuador
6. ^fGrupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
7. ^gPublic Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. Electronic address: arodriguezm@utp.edu.co
8. ^hPublic Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
9. ✉Corresponding author