Posted on 08/14/2020 3:47:13 PM PDT by absalom01
Although Africa reported its millionth official COVID-19 case last week, it seems to have weathered the pandemic relatively well so far, with fewer than one confirmed case for every thousand people and just 23,000 deaths. Yet several antibody surveys suggest far more Africans have been infected with the coronavirus—a discrepancy that is puzzling scientists around the continent. “We do not have an answer,” says immunologist Sophie Uyoga of the Kenya Medical Research Institute–Wellcome Trust Research Programme.
After testing more than 3000 blood donors, Uyoga and colleagues estimated in a preprint last month that one in 20 Kenyans aged 15 to 64—or 1.6 million people—has antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, an indication of past infection. That would put Kenya on a par with Spain in mid-May, when that country had 27,000 official COVID-19 deaths. Kenya's official toll stood at 100 when the study ended. And Kenya's hospitals are not reporting huge numbers of people with COVID-19 symptoms.
Other antibody studies have yielded similarly surprising findings. From a survey of 500 asymptomatic health care workers in Blantyre, Malawi, immunologist Kondwani Jambo of the Malawi–Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme and colleagues concluded that up to 12.3% of them had been exposed to the coronavirus. Based on those findings and mortality ratios for COVID-19 elsewhere, they estimated that reported number of deaths in Blantyre at the time, 17, was eight times lower than expected.
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LOL. Maybe the Africans are phsically superior. A different bell curve with Whitey at the bottom. Ironic.
Maybe there is no monitary incentive for labeling hear disease and cancer deaths etc., as COVID-19 caused.
What is the most common blood type in sub-Saharan Africa?
Many people take HCQ as protection against malaria. Simple
Could it be...gee...I don’t know....that many are already taking a certain drug for malaria? And could the same thing be happening in....gee...i don’t know..India?
Several doctors have recently said they have been treating the Chinese Virus successfully with several different medicines, even ICU stage. I notice the common feature is the different medicines are all anti-parasite meds, like Hydroxylchloroquine is.
Not too many old, fat, diabetic Kenyans would be my guess.
*ouch*
The average life expectancy across the whole continent was 61 years for males and 65 years for females. Not many 80 and 90 year olds. The folks with diabetes and heart disease die early. Not that much obesity.
I read somewhere it’s because they are on HCQ for malaria.
Take out premature baby deaths (they don't count these elsewhere)...black-on-black murders, car crashes, cop shoot-outs with gangs....the average lifespan is way higher.
It's not due to disease.
Maybe a simple reality. People with type O blood seem to be protected against getting Covid 19 and surviving better.
Type O!
Of the eight main blood types, people with type O have the lowest risk for heart disease.
People with types AB and B are at the greatest risk, which could be a result of higher rates of inflammation for these blood types. A heart-healthy lifestyle is particularly important for people with types AB and B blood.
If anyone remembers gen 1 hiv antibody testing, they would understand. 1 in 20 lol. Seriously, the writer should take a stat class.hiv was going to kill all too. The glove industry was and has been happy with your taxpayer dollars. Now its the beautiful union of complete and utter submission.
The masks feel like a hijab.
Hydro... Hydrox... Hydroxychloro... something!? If only I could put it together!
She’s a keeper. Congrats to her and to you.
Sometimes medical care goes too far, makes the wrong decision, prescribes too many or wrong medications, etc.
I’ve known more than one person over the years who has begun feeling better when they started ignoring doctor’s orders or cut back the ten prescribed meds they were taking to the one or two they could tell were helping.
Doctors are like auto mechanics or the guy who fixes your refrigerator. They’re repairing a machine (in their case, the human body) and trying to determine, often through the process of elimination, what the problem is. Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s not.
“We do not have an answer,”
They aren’t as stupid and vulnerable as we are?
Risk factors include old age, obesity, high blood pressure, and various 1st world disorders due to overeating, poor diet, sedentary lifestyles, chemicals.
I don’t think any of these affect most Africans.
There are (unfortunately) too many patients who feel that they got less than their co-pay’s worth if they do not leave their Doctor’s office without a new prescription.\
That is part of America’s REAL drug problem.
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