Researcher documents COVID's catastrophic toll on remote Amazonian city

Nearly all residents of Iquitos lost at least one close family member during the first COVID wave; widespread deaths occurred with bodies left in jungles and mass casualties from lack of oxygen access.

Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, the city of Iquitos believed its remoteness would spare it from COVID-19 — instead, that same isolation became a death sentence when the pandemic arrived and the state did not. Researcher Japhy Wilson spent a year documenting the aftermath: a city where nearly every family buried someone, where oxygen was sold on black markets, and where the dead were sometimes not yet dead. The story of Iquitos is not merely a regional tragedy but a mirror held up to the enduring global failure to protect the most vulnerable when systems collapse.

Researcher documents COVID's catastrophic toll on remote Amazonian city

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