Just amazing that this NEW! IMPROVED! VARIANT! was discovered after a few days of news stories inquiring why Africa had substantially fewer COVID cases than much of the rest of the world. Just amazing.
.... median age...20...they’ve killed all the old people in endless regional wars (Chad, for instance, has a median age of 17, for Angola and Somalia it’s 18)
SA, otoh, has a median age of 28, reflected in 90K deaths with 4 million cases, the first African country to reach the 1 million case marker. If you look back to January, their hospital systems were collapsing and they were running out of oxygen - pre-Delta:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-06/south-africa-hospitals-overwhelmed-amid-covid-19-pandemic/13034562