Bill Gates, a co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), says the world still does not have enough data to understand why COVID-19 numbers have not been as high as predicted in Africa.

The American philanthropist who invests heavily in healthcare in Africa said he is, however, happy to have been wrong about COVID-19 rates in Africa.

“One thing I’m happy to have been wrong about—at least, I hope I was wrong—is my fear that COVID-19 would run rampant in low-income countries,” he wrote in his end of the year note.

“So far, this hasn’t been true. In most of sub-Saharan Africa, for example, case rates and death rates remain much lower than in the U.S. or Europe and on par with New Zealand, which has received so much attention for its handling of the virus.

“The hardest-hit country on the continent is South Africa—but even there, the case rate is 40 percent lower than in the U.S., and the death rate is nearly 50 percent lower.”

According to Gates, “more than 1.6 million people have died in the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 75 million cases and tens of trillions of dollars in economic damages”.

The US has been the hardest-hit country in the world — while South Africa, the continent’s most industrialised nation, has been the most affected in Africa.

Bill Gates had warned early 2020 that Africa could be the worse hit by COVID-19, stating at a conference that the virus would overwhelm health systems in the world’s poorest continent.

Melinda Gates, also a co-chair at BMGF, said the developing world will be hard-hit, she added that she foresees bodies lying aroundin the street of African countries.

But this has not been the case –and the world does not understand why.

Bill Gates said, “we don’t have enough data yet to understand why the numbers aren’t as high as I worried they would get” — but gave probable reasons Africa was not as affected as expected.

“It helped that some countries locked down early. In Africa, another reason may be that the population is young compared with the rest of the world’s, and young people are less susceptible to the virus.

“Another reason could be that its large rural population spends a lot of time outside, where it’s harder to spread the virus. It is also possible—though I hope this is not the case—that the true numbers are higher than they look because gaps in poor countries’ health care systems are making it hard to monitor the disease accurately.”

Gates said one of his fears that have been justified is that “COVID-19 is having a ripple effect with other diseases. Last month, I was surprised to learn that it was only the 31stmost common cause of death in Africa. By comparison, it has ranked number four around the world, and number one in America.”

“Why does it rank so low in Africa? It’s not just the relatively low incidence of COVID-19 there. It’s also because shifting health workers to focus on the coronavirus disrupted efforts to detect and treat HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and other diseases. As a result, COVID-19 stayed low on the list of health threats, but other problems came roaring back.

“Another reason is that patients are more reluctant to go to clinics for fear they might become infected—and that means more severe conditions are going undiagnosed. In India, for example, the diagnosis rate for tuberculosis has dropped by roughly a third. With more undetected cases, more people will probably die from the disease.

“This is another reason why the world’s goal should be to make sure that lifesaving tools reach—and are practical for—every country, not just rich ones.”

Gates said 2020 has been a year of scientific advances and failures, “but there is good news coming in 2021”.


https://observerstimes.com/bill-gates-we-still-dont-understand-why-covid-19-numbers-are-not-high-in-africa/

This is because God big pass you....

Your diabolical vaccine ain't needed in Nigeria precisely

E shock you

So no one has told this man how deep and spiritual we are in our different religions in Africa, especially Christianity. The God we serve will disappoint the devices of the crafty so their hands can not perform their enterprise.

Bill gate God will shame you and your vaccine.

We treat Covid Ike malaria and that's how we kept it low giving that malaria drugs not only treat but cure the virus.

It is what it is, your virus has failed. Me know your plans to mutate the virus and call it covid 21

RevDesm0ndJuju:
We treat Covid Ike malaria and that's how we kept it low giving that malaria drugs not only treat but cure the virus.

I'm sure the deaths we're recording as covid-19's are Malaria and others.

Nigeria politicians are scamming Bill Gates and his likes.

Lalasticlala
Dominique
Sissy3
Mynd44

This should be on frontpage though

.

Simply because no be we get am.. we just dey here jejeje and una wan kobá us.. our God no fit shame us

Seems like his plan ain't working

God pass you

C =3
O=15
R =18
O=15
N=14
A=1
______
66..
.corona is a six letter words which equally give you 666..

.now 2020÷666=30330
Now vote JOE BIDEN for President ,Text United to 30330.... .some will say it's a conspiracy theory...
but it's unveiling before our eyes
Brace up ,for the time is short...
discard thier vaccine,... Aids have been in this world for close to 40 years now ,no cure
what's of cancer ,...
but within a year there's cure for covid....please wake up....

Wicked man! We are suffering from bad government. You still want us to suffer from covid 19. Baba God pass u.

Low testing, use of agbo and herbs, population is not that dense, the space we use to build one house e.g plot. Oyinbo can build 8 houses on it

Shame catch he and his wife. Wetin they hope for no happen.

Lol my brother. E shock them true true.
Wicked whites in suit. God already knew this so he bless African with strong gene.

No melanated person should take that vaccine... We aren't sheep.
Eat good food, fruits and drink water to keep immune systems at 100%
Don't be fool by the media.

This NWO demons won't hide their identity anymore.
People will still call me conspiracy theorist

: Did

see as them they check if the vaccine is the one meant for Africa cos its not doing what they expected

not late for further research

If e no high... come and high am Na

powerhouse3:
C =3
O=15
R =18
O=15
N=14
A=1
______
66..
.corona is a six letter words which equally give you 666..

.now 2020÷666=30330
Now vote JOE BIDEN for President ,Text United to 30330.... .some will say it's a conspiracy theory...
but it's unveiling before our eyes
Brace up ,for the time is short...
discard thier vaccine,... Aids have been in this world for close to 40 years now ,no cure
what's of cancer ,...
but within a year there's cure for covid....please wake up....

Oh man, you are indeed the powerhouse of conspiracy theories...

No kidding.

Respect.

vickydankal:
So no one has told this man how deep and spiritual we are in our different religions in Africa, especially Christianity. The God we serve will disappoint the devices of the crafty so their hands can not perform their enterprise.

Bill gate God will shame you and your vaccine.

You can do better than this, madam. I am hugely disappointed.

FYI, the low numbers/figures have absolutely zilch/nothing to do with 'spirituality'.

Spirituality has never helped Africa or Africans neither has it served to ameliorate the sufferings of this great continent's peoples. Much to the contrary, it has only served to stagnate Africa to a very large extent.

The fact that we ascribe anything and everything at all to 'spirituality' and the 'supernatural' speaks volumes of why we are currently where we are.

Open your eyes, lady... the real reason Africa may not have had the sort of numbers of infected persons and deaths as far as this virus is concerned could be down to our genetic makeup and perhaps other extraneous factors. It is time for African researchers to sit up and start looking into this. It might require some more painstaking effort.

We can't keep ascribing everything to the spiritual or supernatural.

I am inclined to believe that we, as Africans, are a hardy breed and that should explain a whole lot of things as far as this issue is concerned.

Spirituality takes a backseat from here on... No, I put it in the trunk where it rightfully belongs.

powerhouse3:
C =3
O=15
R =18
O=15
N=14
A=1
______
66..
.corona is a six letter words which equally give you 666..

.now 2020÷666=30330
Now vote JOE BIDEN for President ,Text United to 30330.... .some will say it's a conspiracy theory...
but it's unveiling before our eyes
Brace up ,for the time is short...
discard thier vaccine,... Aids have been in this world for close to 40 years now ,no cure
what's of cancer ,...
but within a year there's cure for covid....please wake up....

What if the covid-19 is forced on people by the military?

Galatians:



What if the covid-19 is forced on people by the military?

it's can't be forced,....those that are greedy will willingly take it....Green card or west citizenship will be used as the bait

powerhouse3:
it's can't be forced,....those that are greedy will willingly take it....Green card or west citizenship will be used as the bait

What about Nigerians outside the country that wants to return?

They said the vaccination will be mandatory before flight.

What do you think?