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From the article of this post - "In recent years, the illness has been fatal in up to 6% of infections." I assume this would mainly refer to cases in Africa how
by Chilko 4y ago
From the article of this post - "In recent years, the illness has been fatal in up to 6% of infections." I assume this would mainly refer to cases in Africa however where survival rates may be different to due health care access.
- DannyBee 4y agoThis is weasel wording on their part. Health care access is a factor for sure. But there are also two main variants - one western africa, one central africa. The central african variant has high fatality rate in children/teenagers (1 in 10) The western african variant does not (1 in 100). All current cases are the latter, not the former. (Not tons of data on health care factors involved in the two variants, but seems unlikely that the fatality difference is due mainly to health care). We also have effective vaccines that are fully FDA approved. They can even be freeze dried :) Production is always a factor, but if we needed to produce it fast, i'm sure it could be done. Put another way - this seems ... unlikely to go the same way as COVID if it becomes a thing. We don't need to go do tons of research and studies and figure out how to fights it and etc. We just need to produce an already-approved effective vaccine.