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Anecdote here. I live in Nigeria, what you'll call a third-world country, and our Covid journey has been funny. We basically took much precautions earlier in t
by boeingUH60 5y ago
Anecdote here. I live in Nigeria, what you'll call a third-world country, and our Covid journey has been funny.
We basically took much precautions earlier in the pandemic but later on reverted to life as usual. Markets, restaurants, offices, et al are wide open and people are going about their lives pre-pandemic, however our Covid rates are relatively low; barely 3,000 deaths from a population of 200 million+ if we're to believe the data from our health agency [1].
More so, we're only about 2% vaccinated [2] (I'm included in this group), but with that quite dire rate, I don't really observe a gloomy pandemic around us. I honestly can't point to anyone in my social circles who died of Covid, but there are a few infections whom all recovered quickly.
I'm still trying to understand why, because my common sense expects that Covid should be dealing with us due to our very low vaccination rate. Are the numbers forged? Are we just ignoring the misery around us? I can't tell but I'm hoping for a scientific explanation. Perhaps, if there's an expert immunologist around here should please give me an opinion, I'm all ears and asking in good faith.
1- https://covid19.ncdc.gov.ng/ https://covid19.ncdc.gov.ng/
2 - https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=OWID_WRL https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=OWID_W...
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