CBS: Coronavirus could kill 100,000 in Syria's last rebel enclave, officials warn
Istanbul — Hundreds of thousands of Syrians who have survived nine years of civil war and waves of indiscriminate bombing now face a growing threat from a new, silent, invisible enemy: the coronavirus. The roughly 3 million people who live in Syria's northwest Idlib province have very little to defend themselves against the global pandemic.
Local doctors are urging the international community to step up efforts to help prevent what is already a humanitarian disaster becoming a complete catastrophe.
An outbreak in Idlib could kill 100,000 people in the region, according to health officials there.
The province is the last rebel-held area in Syria, and since December Syrian and Russian airstrikes have forced almost 1 million civilians to flee toward the Turkish border. A fragile ceasefire is currently in place.
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WNU editor: The first case of the Covid-19 coronavirus has just been confirmed in the Kurdish controlled regions of Syria .... Syria's Kurdish-led northeast confirms first case of coronavirus (Middle East Monitor).
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Zinc was not thought to play an important role in immune health until zinc deficiency was shown to be of all places, the Middle East.
I do not think the military aged males with good victuals will be bothered. The refugees if they are zinc deficient may be.
This is more akin to the 1918 pandemic. You have war stressed populations.
As an aside
A rule of thumb about battle is you pay me now or you pay me later. Those that pussy foot around thinking they will avoid harm can end up with much much more harm then, if they hit it head on.
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the other Gulf States funded the Syrian war. I don't think that Brennan or Obama has anything to do with the Arab Spring especially in Syria in 2011. Ukraine maybe. that is an Europeanish country, but the CIA does not seem to be good at or have the humint in the Middle East. Brennan is a swamp rat, who is too busy politically infighting to have time. Obama was worried about the 2012 election until Candy used Mittens as a door mat.
The oppressive condition in Syria were the tinder and the fuel. Qatar lit the match. Maybe Turkey did too. The US came in later. Obama was shoved. This time he was not shoved by the French PM, Italian, PM, Samantha Powerful and public opinion, but by swamp rats. The swamp rats started running guns form Libya. The CIA can do two things at once, right? Take manpads off the market and run some to Syria?
Israel did not start or egg on the protests in Syria. They were agnostic. They would much rather deal with the Assad than the Muslim Brotherhood.
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the Gulf States ramped up their efforts. They may have taken Assad out if they had hit him harder. But maybe they wanted deniability, were afraif of the agendas of other players, ...
Anyway, the population is war stressed. It could happen, but the models have been wrong consistently, because scientific bureaucrats have their rice bowls in hand.
Zinc Deficiency:A Public Health Problem?
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/515768
The Prevalence of Micronutrient Deficiencies and Inadequacies in the Middle East and Approaches to Interventions
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5372892/
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