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OTOH: 'A Continent Where the Dead Aren't Counted' https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/02/world/africa/africa-coronavirus-deaths-underreporting.html?searchResultPos
by sdenton4 6y ago
OTOH:
'A Continent Where the Dead Aren't Counted'
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/02/world/africa/africa-coronavirus-deaths-underreporting.html?searchResultPosition=2 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/02/world/africa/africa-coron...
Tl;dr: Reporting of deaths is incredibly irregular across Africa, and counting excess deaths is likely impossible as a result. The population is younger on average, which likely helps, but we probably don't know the real numbers there.
- leereeves 6y agoThere are still doctors and hospitals there who would see a huge increase in deaths due to respiratory illness, if one occurred. According to your source, they haven't: > “The mortality due to Covid in the African continent is not a major public issue,” said Dorian Job, the West Africa program manager for Doctors Without Borders. The rest of that article is just speculation that there might be an outbreak that isn't being recorded, with little evidence.