ニューヨーク・タイムズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク・タイムズInstagram)「Mexico is battling one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world, and its struggle has been made even harder by a pervasive phenomenon: a deeply rooted fear of hospitals. As the pandemic crushes an already weak health care system in Mexico, with bodies piling up in refrigerated trucks, many Mexicans see the Covid ward as a place where only death awaits — to be avoided at all cost. The problem has long plagued nations overwhelmed by unfamiliar diseases. During the Ebola epidemic in 2014, many in Sierra Leone believed that hospitals had become hopeless death traps, leading sick people to stay home and inadvertently spread the disease to their families and neighbors. Now in Mexico, a similar vicious cycle is taking place. The consequences, doctors, nurses and health ministers say, are severe. Mexicans are waiting to seek medical care until their cases are so bad that doctors can do little to help them. Thousands are dying before ever seeing the inside of a hospital, government data show, succumbing to the virus in taxis on the way there or in sickbeds at home. The distrust is so pronounced that relatives of patients in Ecatepec, a municipality outside Mexico City, stormed a hospital in May, attacking its employees, filming themselves next to bags of corpses and telling reporters that the institution was killing their loved ones. “After seeing videos of what happens to people inside hospitals, screw that,” said José Eduardo, who had recently spent 60 days at home recovering from his own bout with what he believes was the coronavirus. “I’d rather stay home and die there,” said Mr. Eduardo, whose brother Victor Bailón died after refusing for days to go to the hospital, convinced that doctors were killing coronavirus patients. Photos by @danielberehulak」8月11日 7時27分