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- Still, other countries around the world, such as Brazil, have a similar combination of slums, BCG vaccination, warm weather and a younger population, yet still have high COVID-19 infection rates. It could just be that Africa’s early and robust public health response delayed the onset of what may yet be the catastrophe that epidemiologists feared.
Kind of a "dunno, maybe lots of things" (throws up hands) sort of article. It reminds me how everyone was baffled at how well Vietnam has fared, at least as far as morally-superior first world editorial boards are concerned. I don't get the sense that the Vietnamese are stunned to be surviving. It's almost as if developing nations with stable governments that exist a hands' breadth away from pandemic have more experience with limited medical supplies and infrastructure. People will totally get all "ZOMG ambulances on the curtain full of dying people in Pasadena" but when that shit happens in Lesotho? Barely makes the International section.