The situation there sounds dire, but this story is literally a set of WhatsApp messages turned into “news”.
> One very reputable public health specialist expects that the population will be decimated by at least 10-15 million by the time Covid is done with Myanmar
I really don’t think you can come up with a headline figure like that and then hand-wave away the actual source.
My Bangkok dentist with an MPH from a good American university has been forwarding me Covid horror stories that are trivially debunked as fake news for the last 18 months — without names and verifiable quotes, the whole thing is worthless.