The Coronavirus, not the beer

thethe said:
Anyone want to speculate why Africa still hasn’t been hit hard?
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Several reasons. First, their population is younger and the elderly they have aren't generally clustered in group homes. Instead they are cared for by family. A lot of the US fatalities are coming from retirement homes where residents or workers are spreading it around to a lot of old people at once.

Also, the climate in Africa is likely less conducive to the spread of this disease.
 
striker42 said:
Several reasons. First, their population is younger and the elderly they have aren't generally clustered in group homes. Instead they are cared for by family. A lot of the US fatalities are coming from retirement homes where residents or workers are spreading it around to a lot of old people at once.

Also, the climate in Africa is likely less conducive to the spread of this disease.
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Agree with these points. I’d counter with a materially worse healthcare system to offset much of that.
 
thethe said:
Agree with these points. I’d counter with a materially worse healthcare system to offset much of that.
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I’d imagine a worse health care system would lead to underreporting just as much as it would higher mortality, though.
 
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thethe said:
Agree with these points. I’d counter with a materially worse healthcare system to offset much of that.
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In some ways their healthcare system is better set up for this. With Ebola you already had an established system of contact tracing and quarantining. And with things like AIDs and polio you have large government initiatives already in place to educate people and implement health policies. Those were quickly converted to address covid. These things have likely let to a reduction in the spread.
 
Runnin said:
Stronger immune systems, more active, more fresh air, better lungs?
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something to be researched

the genetics of immune systems varies quite a bit by race or ethnic group...there is a piece of dna affecting the immune system that some people inherited from neanderthals...there is one study showing people with that component had worse outcomes when they came down with covid...africans have little or no neanderthal dna

another factor might be urbanization or population density...i believe africa is the least urbanized of the continents
 
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striker42 said:
In some ways their healthcare system is better set up for this. With Ebola you already had an established system of contact tracing and quarantining. And with things like AIDs and polio you have large government initiatives already in place to educate people and implement health policies. Those were quickly converted to address covid. These things have likely let to a reduction in the spread.
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good point...a number of african countries developed effective tracing systems during the Ebola outbreaks and they have rolled that out to good effect against covid
 
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