Opinion: A service trip to Peru offers lessons for treating Covid-19 in the U.S.
In mid-February, just before the reality of Covid-19 took hold in the United States, I was in Loreto, Peru’s largest province, working with a medical team to provide health care to villages generally cut off from such services. These were mainly communities of huts on or along the Marañon River, with limited or no access to running water, toilets, electricity, or cellphone reception.
Little did I know that the trip would provide me with valuable lessons about what I would be facing on my return home.
