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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This article shows that hey are indeed using Hydroxychloroquine
Well the Indian government at least has been very open about their use of HCQ for medical workers, cops, firemen etc as prophylaxis, and have reported a significant effect: 80% reduction in infection rates vs. control
No bad side effects.
It is time for the charade to be mocked until it shrivels up and dies.
No money or political power in The Rona Show. Too expensive to put on, too.
Just tell’m HCQ & Zinc please. IMHO. ;-)
That was my first thought as well - those countries aren’t suffering the “graying” seen in the West.
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