As posted on this thread: ( 6,631,158 global deaths / 7,935,827,098 global population ) x 100 = 0.0836 percent mortality rate over almost three years."
It may well be that the whole "event" and rush to ventilate and inject $3K per patient with remdesivir contributed significantly to death rates in the US, something obviously absent in sub-Saharan Africa. After all, pre-pandemic, medical error was seen as the third highest cause of mortality.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-america.html
https://www.plasticstoday.com/medical/medical-error-third-largest-cause-death-united-states-according-johns-hopkins-researchers
https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2139
It may turn out the "we" -- in our government's handling, warp-speed nonsense, NIAID hospital protocols and more -- are contributory problems worth adding to the picture of the whole.
I have no doubt Africa had far less severe problems with Covid. Although South Africa is an outlier. It also has higher rates of obesity, diabetes, etc,, too. And being more developed, more people living/working/shopping in closed climate-controlled buildings.
The bit about those with natural immunity to malaria not getting sick with Covid is also intriguing. See:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4015279/posts?page=54#54
Hospitals are not a fun place to be (especially if you are sick!) and you can pick up various nasty bugs in them, too, so there’s that, as well. Africa doesn’t do nursing homes, either, and a heartbreakingly high number of Covid deaths in the US and other developed countries were of nursing home patients.
I think it likely that Africa fared better during Covid for a constellation of reasons.