Is the reason Africans have such a low number of infections.... (borders, Barack Obama)
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I wasn’t talking about African-Americans; I was talking about Africans, as in....people who who live in Africa. And they are definitely having lower infections and death rates.
Ah, noted. I had not known that denizens of the continent of Africa were on anti-malaria medication. Truly, I did not know that.
My guesses would be (and these are just guesses) lack of testing and an overall younger population with a lack of common "diseases of affluence" (had to look up what to call that). The people who get really sick with Covid-19 tend to be those who are older and who have diabetes, heart disease, dementia, or are over weight, etc. Not the most common diseases in Africa.
Yes, citizens of Africa don't have the same problems as African-Americans as you mentioned diabetes, heart disease, overweight and smokers. Many showing up at these hospitals didn't even realize they had medical issues due to lack of healthcare. There is no proof that malaria drugs reduce the infections, and they don't have any statistics that the drug is widely used.
The first world is better interlinked with transportation systems, so it is easier for the virus to propagate. Isolated locates function like social distancing, so remote places in Africa may not be effected until later. That being said though, it would be interesting to do a study to see if people who are already being medicated with certain drugs are disproportionately less impacted by COVID-19 (with statistical significance).
....is that they are already on the malaria drug, and thus have aid in fighting off COVID? When you look at the map, they seem to be spared. This is so obvious and unless I’ve missed it, nobody is bringing this up.
We kinda don't know much about what's going on in Africa.
Take Ethiopia. They've tested 2,790 people. That's in a population of 100 million, which is greater than any single European Union member and 1/3 the US population. For every 1 million Ethiopians, 24 have been tested. And within the tiny tiny slice of people they've actually looked at, 56 tested positive and 2 have died. Are there people dying of Covid-19 where nobody knows what killed them? Almost certainly.
The same seems to hold true in every African country I can see. Even countries like Egypt. Very little testing has been done there as well. The only slight exception I'm seeing is South Africa.
Now if it holds that Africa really is getting only very lightly hit, then maybe sunnier weather really does help. Should be interesting to follow.
....is that they are already on the malaria drug, and thus have aid in fighting off COVID? When you look at the map, they seem to be spared. This is so obvious and unless I’ve missed it, nobody is bringing this up.
It's because they take the Trump drug already for malaria and also maybe because the heat slows the spread.
I'd take those reports with a grain of salt... how consistent is the testing in the various African countries?
Maybe, though! Do people in malaria-ridden countries take that medication all the time for prevention, or do they only take it if they get malaria? (I have no idea.) I read that people who have been vaccinated against TB might have some protection. Not that this is related to TB, but it challenges the immune system in a similar (stronger) way that the live TB vaccine challenges the immune system. I don't know which African countries, if any, vaccinate for TB or whether that could also be a factor.
Public health experts including Fauci all say it's multifactorial. The fact is African Americans and white Americans with the same chronic illnesses have far different health outcomes that's been proven repeatedly.
He then mentioned obseity as one of the factors as well as several things that tend to be a result of obseity.
I've only seen a breakdown of race and fatality rate and infection rate.
If you have data comparing races controlled for underlying conditions being the same then please share it.
What you are implying if everything else is the same then doctors and nurses are just letting them die because they are black.
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