I don't think this is rocket science.
"The latest statistics show that 18.4% of women and 7.8% of men on the continent live with obesity "
Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa’s Low Death Rates
21–27 of 27 posts
Re: Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa’s Low Death Rates
#22I don't think this is rocket science.
"The latest statistics show that 18.4% of women and 7.8% of men on the continent live with obesity "
Couple low BMI with a much lower life expectancy so less people over 65 and I think the main variables are covered.
Re: Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa’s Low Death Rates
#23Earlier 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…
Thanks for the info.
Not seeing any mention of obesity in the article unfortunately.
Re: Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa’s Low Death Rates
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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…
So given the facts about obesity in India (high) vs. obesity in Africa (low) and the median age, I'd say that there is no mystery. Three risk factors for Corona are Obesity, other comorbidities and age, the rest of the factors are pretty much insignificant. The best way to protect yourself is the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, which is what people in any of the three groups should do.
What about apparent diff between APOC and non-APOC countries?
Re: Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa’s Low Death Rates
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is APOC?
I think it's meant to be APAC - Asia PACific.
No, the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control, a WHO program funded by the Gates Foundation that ran from 1995 to 2015, distributing over 100 million doses of ivermectin to treat river blindess.
Re: Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa’s Low Death Rates
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
So given the facts about obesity in India (high) vs. obesity in Africa (low) and the median age, I'd say that there is no mystery. Three risk factors for Corona are Obesity, other comorbidities and age, the rest of the factors are pretty much insignificant. The best way to protect yourself is the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, which is what people in any of the three groups should do.
What about apparent diff between APOC and non-APOC countries? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33795896/
That is another enigma, unfortunately i know too little about individual African countries to give a qualified statement.
Re: Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa’s Low Death Rates
#27I'm wondering if we will find all of the masking, and lock downs, and social distancing caused more harm than good? My uneducated theory is people in close quarters are all exposed to a light dose of the virus, thus herd immunity is created. You may have a short spike but it is quickly squelched as society as a whole build immunity. In the developed lock-down societies, herd immunity never developed. People eventually had to go out were they were exposed.
Case in point, look at China. They are having a terrible time with Omnicron ... and they were the most locked-down society on earth during the original outbreak. Everyone else seems to be opening back up.