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NY Times: Only 14% Vaccinated Africa Has Lowest COVID Deaths in World, “Mystery” Cannot Be Accounted for by Record-Keeping.
Two-thirds of population has natural immunity acquired from catching COVID Below: COVID deaths per 100K in population, through September 25, 2022, THE LIGHTER THE COLOR, THE LOWER THE DEATH RATE FR…
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NY Times: Only 14% Vaccinated Africa Has Lowest COVID Deaths in World, “Mystery” Cannot Be Accounted for by Record-Keeping.
Two-thirds of population has natural immunity acquired from catching COVID Below: COVID deaths per 100K in population, through September 25, 2022, THE LIGHTER THE COLOR, THE LOWER THE DEATH RATE FR…

Two-thirds of population has natural immunity acquired from catching COVID
Below: COVID deaths per 100K in population, through September 25, 2022, THE LIGHTER THE COLOR, THE LOWER THE DEATH RATE FROM COVID. The map shows that COVID deaths in most of Africa from have been from 0 to 50 per 100,000 in population, compared to 259 to 415 per 100K in population in the U.S. (source: CNN) (click for larger image)


What you need to know from this article:
- Studies that tested blood samples for antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the official name for the virus that causes Covid, show that about two-thirds of the population in most sub-Saharan countries do indeed have those antibodies. Since only 14 percent of the population has received any kind of Covid vaccination, the antibodies are overwhelmingly from infection.
- A research project at Njala University in Sierra Leone has found that 78 percent of people have antibodies for this coronavirus.
- In answer to the theory that death recording systems in Africa have simply missed many COVID deaths, doctors on the ground say “it’s not possible that hundreds of thousands or even millions of Covid deaths could have gone unnoticed.”
Dr. Demby, the Sierra Leone health minister, who is an epidemiologist by training, agreed. “We haven’t had overflowing hospitals. We haven’t,” he said. “There is no evidence that excess deaths are occurring.”
Via New York Times, March 2022, “Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa’s Low Death Rates”
By Stephanie NolanKAMAKWIE, Sierra Leone — There are no Covid fears here.
The district’s Covid-19 response center has registered just 11 cases since the start of the pandemic, and no deaths. At the regional hospital, the wards are packed — with malaria patients. The door to the Covid isolation ward is bolted shut and overgrown with weeds. People cram together for weddings, soccer matches, concerts, with no masks in sight.
Sierra Leone, a nation of eight million on the coast of Western Africa, feels like a land inexplicably spared as a plague passed overhead. What has happened — or hasn’t happened — here and in much of sub-Saharan Africa is a great mystery of the pandemic.
The low rate of coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and deaths in West and Central Africa is the focus of a debate that has divided scientists on the continent and beyond. Have the sick or dead simply not been counted? If Covid has in fact done less damage here, why is that? If it has been just as vicious, how have we missed it?
The answers “are relevant not just to us, but have implications for the greater public good,” said Austin Demby, Sierra Leone’s health minister, in an interview in Freetown, the capital.... NY Times: Only 14% Vaccinated Africa Has Lowest COVID Deaths in World, “Mystery” Cannot Be Accounted for by Record-Keeping.
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