The Year Of Covid-19: How Did Africa Escape The Calamity Of A Pandemic
The Year Of Covid-19: How Did Africa Escape The Calamity Of A Pandemic
THE EDITOR,
One year after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic in March of 2020, the spread of the virus remains unabated. In fact, some countries are now going through a second, and for others, a third wave of the pandemic.
The United States, a country recognized as one of the richest countries in the world and a paragon of scientific innovations and medical excellence is still paralyzed by the deadliest public health disaster since the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. According to the John Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center, there are more than 29 million COVID-19 infections and deaths surpassing 540 thousand in a population of 330 million people. The trajectory of the case fatality rate (CFR) in the United States is a moving target riding on an incline. The same is true for countries in Europe, South America and other parts of Asia.