Africa avoiding most of the COVID-19

[Subcomandante]

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus- ... 172eb01a2f

Also an AP story, linked to Drudge.

The AP also notes that Africa is the least vaccinated area in the world, yet they haven't really suffered near as much as many other places that are with higher vaccination rates and more infrastructure...

It also notes that the rate of urbanization in Africa is quite low and people spend time outdoors...almost like if the lockdown orders forcing people inside is actually a countereffect.

[buffalo_girl]

Ivermectin?

[Niemand]

Ivermectin?

Not even close. I don't think Africans are aware of it much. They are however the least "vaccinated" continent. Pfizer managed to p off Nigerians big time:

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In 2007, the Nigerian federal government and Kano State government filed criminal and civil suits against Pfizer and eight other defendants, asking for $7 billion in damages. The suit charged that the company had tested an unapproved and experimental drug on children with neither informed consent from parents nor approval from the Nigerian government. Pfizer countered that such approval wasn’t necessary. In 2001, an investigation by the Washington Post had uncovered that a document Pfizer claimed to prove ethical approval by Nigerian authorities for the trial appeared to be falsified and back-dated.

In 2009, Pfizer and Kano State officials, along with representatives of the children’s families, agreed a confidential out-of-court settlement for $75 million. This conclusion led to compensation for some of the families affected, but Pfizer never admitted to wrongdoing and maintains to this day that the trial was proper and life-saving.

[Niemand]

It also notes that the rate of urbanization in Africa is quite low and people spend time outdoors...almost like if the lockdown orders forcing people inside is actually a countereffect.

That might have once been true a few decades ago, but there are some very big cities in Africa - Lagos, Mombasa, Nairobi, Kinshasa, Johannesburg to name but a few. A lot of these would be impossible to lock down, because they include shanty towns where you are only separated from your neighbours by a sheet of steel or plastic.

Looking at the list of biggest cities, Cairo is at no. 6 (but is not really black Africa). Lagos is no. 18 (bigger than LA or Moscow) Kinshasa no. 21 etc. African cities would feature more in the top 100 if all the Chinese ones were taken off. But there are plenty of other African cities with big populations - Dar es Salaam has 6 million, Luanda 7 million, Khartoum 5 mil., Mogadishu 3 mil., Harare 2 mil... there are European countries with smaller populations than some of these cities. Luanda has more people than New Zealand or Ireland for example.

These cities often have bad infrastructure (see above) so are probably more unhealthy than first world cities. The flipside is that their inhabitants have stronger immune systems.

[kittycat51]

Ivermectin?

YES! I can't remember what video I saw this image on because I watch so many. But this photo shows that Ivermectin does play a huge roll. You will see the countries in blue use it frequently and it can be purchased at a local drugstore easy peasy. The line at the very bottom shows the results of cases because of it's use and it is WAY LOW.

[JK4Woods]

Back in the day I traveled by 4x4 across Africa from east to west, and then north across the Sahara desert. It was the mid-80’s and AIDS was supposed to be everywhere, (at least purported by SF Bay Area press).

Because of Malaria, I took Chloroquine Phosphate for a month before I left, and four months after arriving home. So about a year in all.

No harm to me, and no colds at all that whole year.

Hydroxy Chloroquine is the successor to the medicine I was taking. So depending on how widespread population intake of Anti-malaria medicine, means less chance of C-19...

[Subcomandante]

Back in the day I traveled by 4x4 across Africa from east to west, and then north across the Sahara desert. It was the mid-80’s and AIDS was supposed to be everywhere, (at least purported by SF Bay Area press).

Because of Malaria, I took Chloroquine Phosphate for a month before I left, and four months after arriving home. So about a year in all.

No harm to me, and no colds at all that whole year.

Hydroxy Chloroquine is the successor to the medicine I was taking. So depending on how widespread population intake of Anti-malaria medicine, means less chance of C-19...

That makes sense. The countries marked in blue have high incidences of malaria.