Opinion: Poor countries have made extraordinary progress against epidemic disease. We need to learn from them
About two months ago, when Covid-19 was still a somewhat distant problem in the United States, I caught sight of a poster in a remote airport in the Peruvian Amazon warning about the coronavirus.
At the time I was leading a global health team from Dartmouth College working with Peru’s National Telehealth Network to extend its telehealth program to remote rural communities with limited health infrastructure and health care workers. The team has since turned its attention to supporting Peru and partners in other low- and middle-income countries confront the pandemic that has swamped the world’s strongest health systems.
