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Scientists mystified, wary, as Africa avoids COVID disaster
Posted on 11/21/21 at 6:45 am
Posted on 11/21/21 at 6:45 am
Hmmm anyone here have any input of how this could be?
Breitbart Link -Scientists mystified, wary, as Africa avoids COVID disaster
When the coronavirus first emerged last year, health officials feared the pandemic would sweep across Africa, killing millions and destroying the continent’s fragile health systems
Scientists mystified, wary, as Africa avoids COVID disasterBy MARIA CHENG and FARAI MUTSAKAAssociated PressThe Associated PressHARARE, Zimbabwe
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — At a busy market in a poor township outside Harare this week, Nyasha Ndou kept his mask in his pocket, as hundreds of other people, mostly unmasked, jostled to buy and sell fruit and vegetables displayed on wooden tables and plastic sheets. As in much of Zimbabwe, here the coronavirus is quickly being relegated to the past, as political rallies, concerts and home gatherings have returned.
“COVID-19 is gone, when did you last hear of anyone who has died of COVID-19?” Ndou said. “The mask is to protect my pocket,” he said. “The police demand bribes so I lose money if I don’t move around with a mask.” Earlier this week, Zimbabwe recorded just 33 new COVID-19 cases and zero deaths, in line with a recent fall in the disease across the continent, where World Health Organization data show that infections have been dropping since July.
When the coronavirus first emerged last year, health officials feared the pandemic would sweep across Africa, killing millions. Although it’s still unclear what COVID-19’s ultimate toll will be, that catastrophic scenario has yet to materialize in Zimbabwe or much of the continent.
Scientists emphasize that obtaining accurate COVID-19 data, particularly in African countries with patchy surveillance, is extremely difficult, and warn that declining coronavirus trends could easily be reversed.
But there is something “mysterious” going on in Africa that is puzzling scientists, said Wafaa El-Sadr, chair of global health at Columbia University. “Africa doesn’t have the vaccines and the resources to fight COVID-19 that they have in Europe and the U.S., but somehow they seem to be doing better,” she said.
Fewer than 6% of people in Africa are vaccinated. For months, the WHO has described Africa as “one of the least affected regions in the world” in its weekly pandemic reports.
Some researchers say the continent’s younger population — the average age is 20 versus about 43 in Western Europe — in addition to their lower rates of urbanization and tendency to spend time outdoors, may have spared it the more lethal effects of the virus so far. Several studies are probing whether there might be other explanations, including genetic reasons or exposure to other diseases.
Christian Happi, director of the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases at Redeemer’s University in Nigeria, said authorities are used to curbing outbreaks even without vaccines and credited the extensive networks of community health workers.
Breitbart Link -Scientists mystified, wary, as Africa avoids COVID disaster
When the coronavirus first emerged last year, health officials feared the pandemic would sweep across Africa, killing millions and destroying the continent’s fragile health systems
Scientists mystified, wary, as Africa avoids COVID disasterBy MARIA CHENG and FARAI MUTSAKAAssociated PressThe Associated PressHARARE, Zimbabwe
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — At a busy market in a poor township outside Harare this week, Nyasha Ndou kept his mask in his pocket, as hundreds of other people, mostly unmasked, jostled to buy and sell fruit and vegetables displayed on wooden tables and plastic sheets. As in much of Zimbabwe, here the coronavirus is quickly being relegated to the past, as political rallies, concerts and home gatherings have returned.
“COVID-19 is gone, when did you last hear of anyone who has died of COVID-19?” Ndou said. “The mask is to protect my pocket,” he said. “The police demand bribes so I lose money if I don’t move around with a mask.” Earlier this week, Zimbabwe recorded just 33 new COVID-19 cases and zero deaths, in line with a recent fall in the disease across the continent, where World Health Organization data show that infections have been dropping since July.
When the coronavirus first emerged last year, health officials feared the pandemic would sweep across Africa, killing millions. Although it’s still unclear what COVID-19’s ultimate toll will be, that catastrophic scenario has yet to materialize in Zimbabwe or much of the continent.
Scientists emphasize that obtaining accurate COVID-19 data, particularly in African countries with patchy surveillance, is extremely difficult, and warn that declining coronavirus trends could easily be reversed.
But there is something “mysterious” going on in Africa that is puzzling scientists, said Wafaa El-Sadr, chair of global health at Columbia University. “Africa doesn’t have the vaccines and the resources to fight COVID-19 that they have in Europe and the U.S., but somehow they seem to be doing better,” she said.
Fewer than 6% of people in Africa are vaccinated. For months, the WHO has described Africa as “one of the least affected regions in the world” in its weekly pandemic reports.
Some researchers say the continent’s younger population — the average age is 20 versus about 43 in Western Europe — in addition to their lower rates of urbanization and tendency to spend time outdoors, may have spared it the more lethal effects of the virus so far. Several studies are probing whether there might be other explanations, including genetic reasons or exposure to other diseases.
Christian Happi, director of the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases at Redeemer’s University in Nigeria, said authorities are used to curbing outbreaks even without vaccines and credited the extensive networks of community health workers.
This post was edited on 11/21/21 at 6:47 am
Posted on 11/21/21 at 6:46 am to FahQue
Only about a million things in Africa more deadly than Covid…. Who knew…
Posted on 11/21/21 at 6:47 am to FahQue
Almost as if people there take Sunday Sunday or something.
Posted on 11/21/21 at 6:47 am to FahQue
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the average age is 20
Could it be any more obvious?
Posted on 11/21/21 at 6:54 am to FahQue
So top scientists are working on a plan to infect all of Africa with covid19...and then send over the vaccine.
Posted on 11/21/21 at 6:56 am to FahQue
Same reason why the homeless and Amish people aren't dead...
Posted on 11/21/21 at 7:01 am to FahQue
Ivermectin is a prophylactic and was already given to Africas to prevent parasites, malaria, and such.
Posted on 11/21/21 at 7:02 am to Smeg
Meanwhile, Scientists scratch their heads
Posted on 11/21/21 at 7:04 am to FahQue
Directly proportionate to the lack of TVs and 24/7 talking-head propaganda?
Posted on 11/21/21 at 7:05 am to FahQue
I wonder what they use to prevent and treat malaria there. Could that have anything to do with it?
Posted on 11/21/21 at 7:06 am to FahQue
Because no one travels to that shite hole....
Posted on 11/21/21 at 7:27 am to FahQue
What? The lowest vaccinated continent has the lowest case load?
Almost like natural immunity is the best way to get rid of CV19. Huh. Who would have thunk it.
Almost like natural immunity is the best way to get rid of CV19. Huh. Who would have thunk it.
Posted on 11/21/21 at 7:40 am to FahQue
Because practically the entire population takes hydroxychloroquine already for malaria, and many also take ivermectin for river blindness, etc.
Posted on 11/21/21 at 7:57 am to Paddyshack
How many obese people live in Africa?
Posted on 11/21/21 at 8:28 am to FahQue
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Fewer than 6% of people in Africa are vaccinated.
Bill Gates won’t like that
Posted on 11/21/21 at 8:36 am to FahQue
quote:https://www.euronews.com/2021/09/14/covid-19-i-will-continue-to-call-for-vaccine-equity-until-we-get-it-says-who-chief But WHO wants vaccine equity goes to Africa. So in other words, more ways to skim money for themselves.
Fewer than 6% of people in Africa are vaccinated. For months, the WHO has described Africa as “one of the least affected regions in the world” in its weekly pandemic reports.
Posted on 11/21/21 at 8:39 am to Diamondawg
African countries have no cheddar. Big pharma not interested
Posted on 11/21/21 at 8:43 am to FahQue
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Scientists mystified
Real scientists are not. They know the vaccine is fake and the only way to herd immunity is through natural infection.
Posted on 11/21/21 at 8:45 am to FahQue
I’ve never in my life seen science so intent on disregarding common sense.
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