With how the US is handling Omicron, this seems inevitable
Submitted 2 years ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to coronavirus@lemmy.ml
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CoinOperatedBoi@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
pingveno@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
It's not the US that I'm personally most worried about, though we must do better internally. It's nations with vaccination rates that make even heavily anti-vaxxer regions of the US look good. Almost all of Africa is in incredibly bad shape. There are a couple of African countries that have broken 50%, but it is common to have rates below 10%. Its third largest country, The Democratic Republic of The Congo, has 100 million people and a 0.2% vaccination rate. The world must do better in helping Africa get vaccinated, both to stop variants and to end the erosion of Africa's hard won progress in recent years.
HamsterDeveloper@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
I have read it's likely South Africa has already seen a majority of the population infected at least once. A vaccine is to be preferred (prevention of death and long term consequences), but I think natural immunization in those countries will inevitably be faster than any vaccination programme could be carried out and it might be just as good in the picture of "ending" the pandemic.
DPUGT2@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Not even the scariest potential, unfortunately.