Maybe they could consider that in these areas the wide spread use of hydroxychloroquine for prevention of Malaria and of ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of such things as parasites and worms may have something to do with it?

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Posted by Mellow Drama

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Posted on 11/21/21 at 4:29 pm to lsufan1971

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Fewer than 6% of people in Africa are vaccinated.

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Bill Gates won’t like that

frick Gill Bates, that hobnobber with Epstein who didn't kill himself.

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Posted by iron banks

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Posted on 11/21/21 at 4:35 pm to Mellow Drama

The media is pure evil on demonizing hydroxychloroquine. More people died because of hatred for Trump than will ever be realized.

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Posted by CommieHater

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Posted on 11/21/21 at 4:44 pm to FahQue

Scientists mystified, wary, as Africa avoids COVID disasterPosted on 11/20/21 at 8:20 am

I perused the demonic underground to "listen in" on their anger and sorrow over the Rittenhouse verdict and found a thread discussing an article from a liberal publication called Rochesterfirst.com. The day is still early so I am going to monitor their discussions... let us avoid talking about the obvious...The article got me curious about the author(s) so I googled the name "MARIA CHENG" and found another article written by Miss Cheng...

Africa tries to end vaccine inequity by replicating its own

Maybe I am just a skeptic when it comes to all things Covid but I question why neither the articles nor the forum discussion mention anything about herd immunity or ivermectin (used to treat malaria) or why poorer countries are not a high priority for the pharmaceudical companies

Scientists mystified, wary, as Africa avoids COVID disaster

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“COVID-19 is gone, when did you last hear of anyone who has died of COVID-19?” Ndou said. “The mask is to protect my pocket,” he said. “The police demand bribes so I lose money if I don’t move around with a mask.” Earlier this week, Zimbabwe recorded just 33 new COVID-19 cases and zero deaths, in line with a recent fall in the disease across the continent, where World Health Organization data show that infections have been dropping since July. When the coronavirus first emerged last year, health officials feared the pandemic would sweep across Africa, killing millions. Although it’s still unclear what COVID-19’s ultimate toll will be, that catastrophic scenario has yet to materialize in Zimbabwe or much of the continent.

Herd immunity?

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But there is something “mysterious” going on in Africa that is puzzling scientists, said Wafaa El-Sadr, chair of global health at Columbia University. “Africa doesn’t have the vaccines and the resources to fight COVID-19 that they have in Europe and the U.S., but somehow they seem to be doing better,” she said. Fewer than 6% of people in Africa are vaccinated. For months, the WHO has described Africa as “one of the least affected regions in the world” in its weekly pandemic reports.

Ivermectan?

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On Friday, researchers working in Uganda said they found COVID-19 patients with high rates of exposure to malaria were less likely to suffer severe disease or death than people with little history of the disease. “We went into this project thinking we would see a higher rate of negative outcomes in people with a history of malaria infections because that’s what was seen in patients co-infected with malaria and Ebola,” said Jane Achan, a senior research advisor at the Malaria Consortium and a co-author of the study. “We were actually quite surprised to see the opposite — that malaria may have a protective effect.” Achan said this may suggest that past infection with malaria could “blunt” the tendency of people’s immune systems to go into overdrive when they are infected with COVID-19. The research was presented Friday at a meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Demonic Underground

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Foolish people will line up to get a malaria virus. The real reason for Africa avoiding the disaster we all feared will remain unknown for some time. Perhaps malaria boosts the immune system, perhaps a medication or treatment that was used, perhaps it's something in the water, or perhaps a stronger outdoor life is a key. We may never know. Articles such as this contribute to our over-saturation with information and misinformation. Journalists have lead people down dangerous roads many times and each of us are susceptible in our own ways.

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Star Member bucolic_frolic (27,648 posts) 7. Count me in the better immunity from more natural diet camp In particular I suspect they don't have the processed and often overcooked oils, corn, and wheat that most of the rest of the world consumes. Strip out allergens that often devolve into mild and unnoticed auto-immune disease. Sorry for the Euell Gibbons spiel. But it's working for me.

Africa tries to end vaccine inequity by replicating its own

Not enough guaranteed $$$ for big pharma?

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The energy in the gleaming labs matches the urgency of their mission to narrow vaccine disparities. By working to replicate Moderna’s COVID-19 shot, the scientists are effectively making an end run around an industry that has vastly prioritized rich countries over poor in both sales and manufacturing.

And they are doing it with unusual backing from the World Health Organization, which is coordinating a vaccine research, training and production hub in South Africa along with a related supply chain for critical raw materials. It’s a last-resort effort to make doses for people going without, and the intellectual property implications are still murky.

“We are doing this for Africa at this moment, and that drives us,” said Emile Hendricks, a 22-year-old biotechnologist for Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, the company trying to reproduce the Moderna shot. “We can no longer rely on these big superpowers to come in and save us.”

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Moderna has pledged to build a vaccine factory in Africa at some point in the future. But after pleading with drugmakers to share their recipes, raw materials and technological know-how, some poorer countries are done waiting.

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“We have a lot of competition coming from Big Pharma. They don’t want to see us succeed,” Terblanche said. “They are already starting to say that we don’t have the capability to do this. We are going to show them.”

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Commercial production is the point at which intellectual property could become an issue. Moderna has said it would not pursue legal action against a company for infringing on its vaccine rights, but neither has it offered to help companies that have volunteered to make its mRNA shot.

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