Every body got covid, page-67

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    Interesting how the continent with the lowest covid vaccination rates also had the lowest covid death rates
    Must be something in the water


    How Has Africa Largely Evaded the COVID-19 Pandemic?
    SHP master's student Tofunmi Omiye looked at why so few Africans have been hit by the coronavirus compared to the rest of the world. He recently presented this conundrum at Stanford’s 8th Annual Global Health Research Convening.

    Africa is the second most populous continent with an estimated 17.2% of the world’s population. Yet it has only accounted for 5% of the global cases of COVID-19 — and only 3% of the deaths.
    As this recent New York Times story says: “The coronavirus was expected to devastate the continent, but higher-income and better-prepared countries appear to have fared far worse.”
    Stanford Health Policy master’s student Tofunmi Omiye wants to understand why so few Africans have been hit by the coronavirus compared to the rest of the world. He recently presented this conundrum at Stanford’s 8th Annual Global Health

    https://healthpolicy.fsi.stanford.edu/news/how-has-africa-largely-evaded-covid-19-pandemic-0
 
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