Today is National Dentist’s Day when we show appreciation and thanks for our dentists. Thank you to the gifted and talented dentists at the Manos Amigas clinic. And, thank you to the retired dentists on our board of directors and those dentists who have volunteered on brigades.

Manos Amigas has no coronavirus test kits, nor do other private or public clinics. Only the National Institute of Virology in Tegucigalpa is doing the tests. As of April 18, Honduras had conducted 2,535 tests, which is 256 tests per one million people, compared with 11,492 tests per one million people in the United States.

COVID-19 has hit developing countries like Honduras particularly hard. Many Hondurans live off of only what they can sell each day in a roadside stand. For those that have a steady job, most have been laid off and those who are still working are receiving only half-pay.