Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa’s Low Death Rates

Post by rkk3 » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 9:02 PM UTC

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stolenmerch wrote: post #5

I suppose the first thing that might come to mind is the correlation between obesity and serious disease outcome. "Pooled analysis show individuals with obesity were more at risk for COVID-19, >46% higher for hospitalization. >113% higher for ICU, 48% increase in death... The underlying metabolic and inflammatory factors of individuals with obesity also play a considerable role in the manifestation of severe lung dis…

Obesity is always been one of the main factors in COVID mortality. Really any mortality, for almost every illness being overweight complicates things. However, it's taboo to outright say that. The Huffington Post runs a regular, "You can be morbidly obese and be perfectly healthy "article. I used to be well over 300 lb, and even now losing weight is one of my primary concerns ( I hover around 240, although when I sla…

Post by sharken » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 9:56 PM UTC

StanislavPetrov wrote: post #6

maxwell wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you stop reading? Two paragraphs later: > Since Covid tore through South and Southeast Asia last year, it has become harder to accept these theories. After all, the population of India is young, too (with a median age of 28), and temperatures in the country are also relatively high. But researchers have found that the Delta variant caused millions of deaths in India, far more than the 400,000 officially reported.…

>India, with 41 million obese people, ranks third after the US and China in having the highest number of overweight people in the world, says a study. Young, thin people have an extremely low covid mortality rate. Young, obese people have a much higher morality rate. >In a study of COVID-19 cases in patients aged 18 years and younger, having obesity was associated with a 3.07 times higher risk of hospitalization and…

Post by moistly » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 11:51 PM UTC

Post by unsupp0rted » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 12:58 AM UTC

jnwatson wrote: post #14

StanislavPetrov wrote: post #3

I think this is the most relevant passage in the article: >Some speculation has focused on the relative youth of Africans. Their median age is 19 years, compared with 43 in Europe and 38 in the United States. Nearly two-thirds of the population in sub-Saharan Africa is under 25, and only 3 percent is 65 or older. That means far fewer people, comparatively, have lived long enough to develop the health issues (cardiova…

That half of the population is under 20 boggles the mind.

Post by jjeaff » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:39 AM UTC

berto4 wrote: post #16

how about this: Africans are simply healthier; given all the poverty, they're saved from the diseases of the rich which are more susceptible to covid. It's funny how all the so-called philantropist was pushing to vaccinate them nonetheless.