I'm really hoping this holds true as the situation evolves.
In the mean time, my concern with this statement is that Africa was already "doing well" against covid .. bc of a combination of low testing, but also they have a smaller at risk population compared to the west.
In the west we're a lot better at keeping vulnerable people alive a lot longer, which consequently winds up as the demographic covid likes to target.
Optimistically, I do think if omicron was an order of magnitude worse than what we've been dealing with, we would already see "hints" of such traits .. fortunately that doesn't seem to be the case, for now.
Moving forward, I hope everyone continues to treat this seriously .. but it's becoming more clear that covid is here to stay no matter what measures we take.
I'm really hoping this holds true as the situation evolves.
In the mean time, my concern with this statement is that Africa was already "doing well" against covid .. bc of a combination of low testing, but also they have a smaller at risk population compared to the west.
In the west we're a lot better at keeping vulnerable people alive a lot longer, which consequently winds up as the demographic covid likes to target.
Optimistically, I do think if omicron was an order of magnitude worse than what we've been dealing with, we would already see "hints" of such traits .. fortunately that doesn't seem to be the case, for now.
Moving forward, I hope everyone continues to treat this seriously .. but it's becoming more clear that covid is here to stay no matter what measures we take.