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Poverty resulting in inadequate infrastructure particularly in the health, clean water supply, hygienic disposal of sewage and other waste, coupled with poor diet. These are the significant factors to be overcome.
Poverty resulting in inadequate infrastructure particularly in the health, clean water supply, hygienic disposal of sewage and other waste, coupled with poor diet. These are the significant factors to be overcome.
A poor diet or just being poor has nothing to do with it.
Coronavirus has been around for decades now there is this huge alarm? Hmmm something doesn't seem right!
Over 9,000 people in the US are being quarantined but supposedly don't have it but people are still getting sick in the US?
Ironic question to be asking amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Sub Sahara Africa, thus far, has been the least impacted, and the few cases are I heard have been mostly non-natives or European/Asians that have traveled from other continents.
A poor diet or just being poor has nothing to do with it.
It has everything to do with it, poverty results in poor nutrition, poor nutrition results in an impaired immune system, an impaired immune system results in infection with multiple diseases, many infected people result in infections being passed on to others, the exact opposite to the herd immunity we enjoy in a wealthy society.
Other factors resulting from poverty are poor or no local authorities draining swamps or fogging for disease carrying vectors such as mosquitoes, and no immunization programs. Do you get the picture?
It is said that this virus is a version of MERS and SARS.
When SARS emerged from China in 2002 it swept across the globe—largely through air travel—causing deadly illness. More than 8,000 people fell ill and 774 died, numbers COVID-19 surpassed within two months. SARS drew the collective focus of researchers throughout the world. The disease disappeared in 2004, likely due to isolation and quarantine containment measures, and no cases of SARS have been reported since. In 2012, a new coronavirus emerged in the Middle East causing an illness similar to SARS. Again, researchers at NIAID and across the globe initiated studies to understand MERS-CoV and how to stop it. Research efforts from those two outbreaks—including development of a DNA vaccine candidate for SARS by NIAID’s Vaccine Research Center—have prepared scientists to quickly assess the severity and transmission potential of SARS-CoV-2, and to develop countermeasures. https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-c.../coronaviruses
Being that people are getting sick that have not traveled or come in contact with recent people that tested positive with COVID-19 means that it has been here and is not a new virus. Although others in the medical community have said as much this is just my opinion.
It has everything to do with it, poverty results in poor nutrition, poor nutrition results in an impaired immune system, an impaired immune system results in infection with multiple diseases, many infected people result in infections being passed on to others, the exact opposite to the herd immunity we enjoy in a wealthy society.
Other factors resulting from poverty are poor or no local authorities draining swamps or fogging for disease carrying vectors such as mosquitoes, and no immunization programs. Do you get the picture?
Poverty doesn't always equal an impaired immune system. Many Africans that are considered poor have a healthier diet than the people that anything they want to when they want to especially if fast food is on of the options. A lacking diet also doesn't mean that one will develop a disease it just means if they get a disease it is less likely that they can afford to pay to treat it.
In wealthy societies it doesn't stop anyone from getting chicken pox, TB, COVID, HIV/AIDS for example it just means you have more access to communicate the issue (educate), treatments are more accessible, and treatments can be afforded by more people.
Having proper sanitation and local authorities has less to do with poverty and more to do with priorities. In Michigan and throughout the USA the drinking water is contaminated and so is many of its farmed soils. Which cause disease, viruses, and even some cancers. This can all be rectified but am not sure it is a priority. Same can be said about 3rd world countries, the governments have to make it a point to have clean sanitation practices.
Sometimes the wealthier countries pollute other environments/countries by dumping or shipping its garbage as well. In addition some of the vaccines that are given in 3rd world countries are expired and or aren't vaccines at all.
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