Bettsy Y. Recalde

TL;DR: In this paper, the occurrence of cognitive decline among individuals with a history of mild symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection was assessed, defined as a reduction in the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score between the post-andemic and pre-pandemic assessments.

TL;DR: These findings support the fears of mass spread of SARS-CoV-2 in rural Latin America and cannot exclude a contributing role for fecal-oral transmission.

TL;DR: A sudden increase in adult mortality associated with respiratory diseases was noticed in Atahualpa (a rural Ecuadorian village), coinciding with the introduction of SARS-CoV-2, and after peaking in April and May, mortality significantly decreased.

TL;DR: High social risk, as measured by the social determinants of health (SDH), may increase the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection in community-dwelling older adults living in rural Ecuador, but this association has not been studied in rural communities.

TL;DR: Assessment of the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in rural communities in middle-aged and older adults enrolled in the Atahualpa Project Cohort found increased seroconversion in individuals using latrines is consistent with a contributory role of fecal-oral transmission, although it cannot rule out the possibility that latRines are acting as a proxy for poverty or other unknown interacting variables.