accept Ecuador is being particularly ravished by Covid-19 so dont know what that says.

You made a particularly unfortunate accidental word switch up. I imagine you meant "ravaged".

ravished — _fill (someone) with intense delight; enrapture._

Captain Nitpick here...

That's one definition. It can also mean to carry someone off by force, to kidnap. "Carried away" is the root idea, but it doesn't have to be "by delight".

Also "accept" is not "except".

Because they are still deficient of vitamin D [1]:

> It is evident that, despite the location of Ecuador and the intensity of UV rays it receives throughout the year, Ecuadorian subjects have insufficient levels of vitamin D.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5576417/

I wonder if it says they wear a lot of sunscreen. They’re on the equator and much of the country is at a very high elevation so the sun is particularly strong. When I was in Ecuador for a few months I went through more sunscreen than I had in my whole life up to that point. Without sunscreen I would get burnt to a crisp on an overcast day even when I didn’t spend much time outside.