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Africa transitioning out of pandemic phase’
Tedros’s comments came a day after Matshidiso Moeti, Africa director for the WHO, said the continent is transitioning out of the pandemic phase of the COVID-19 outbreak. With a more optimistic view, she said Africa is moving towards a situation where it will be managing the virus over the long term.
The pandemic is moving into a different phase … We think that we’re moving now, especially with the vaccination expected to increase, into what might become a kind of endemic living with the virus,” Moeti told a media briefing on Thursday.
“Against the odds, including huge inequities in access to vaccinations, we’ve weathered the COVID-19 storm with resilience and determination,” she said.
Only 11 percent of Africans are vaccinated, the lowest rate in the world. Last week, the WHO’s Africa office said the continent must boost its vaccination rate “six times” to reach the 70 percent target.
According to the World Bank, the pandemic is estimated to have pushed up to 40 million people into extreme poverty in Africa, and every month of delay in lifting containment measures is estimated to cost Africa $13.8bn in lost gross domestic product, Moeti said.
COVID pandemic’s ‘acute phase’ could end by midyear: WHO
In other words, while I'm seeing low Covid-19 cases in Sub-Saharan Africa, it has been done at the cost of driving people into extreme poverty because they have shut the economy down.
I'm seeing a strange pattern in estimated infections at IHME (Institute for Health Metrics).
IHME | COVID-19 Projections
The peak was about December 20th, about a month before it reached a peak in this country. Now it has subsided to about what it was before the omicron portion already, but is projected to not go any further down up to June 1st. I'm assuming probably it will be like that indefinitely. In contrast, in America, it will continue to drop precipitously up to June 1st, it is projected.
They are fully vaccinated at 9% now in Sub-Saharan Africa. At June 1st, it is projected it will be 14%.
Putting it all together the economic shutdown will continue, with devastating consequences in Africa.
This is a consequence of rich countries being selfish about distributing vaccines. The lack of global solidarity will really hurt Africa, and perhaps the rest of the world due to Covid-19 given time produce a strain even more devastating. In the long run, that might be good if this does wreak the whole world, because then the world will realize that the good of the whole is the good of the individual nation and taken more decisive action on climate change, which in my estimation is a much greater threat to humanity in the long run.
Tedros’s comments came a day after Matshidiso Moeti, Africa director for the WHO, said the continent is transitioning out of the pandemic phase of the COVID-19 outbreak. With a more optimistic view, she said Africa is moving towards a situation where it will be managing the virus over the long term.
The pandemic is moving into a different phase … We think that we’re moving now, especially with the vaccination expected to increase, into what might become a kind of endemic living with the virus,” Moeti told a media briefing on Thursday.
“Against the odds, including huge inequities in access to vaccinations, we’ve weathered the COVID-19 storm with resilience and determination,” she said.
Only 11 percent of Africans are vaccinated, the lowest rate in the world. Last week, the WHO’s Africa office said the continent must boost its vaccination rate “six times” to reach the 70 percent target.
According to the World Bank, the pandemic is estimated to have pushed up to 40 million people into extreme poverty in Africa, and every month of delay in lifting containment measures is estimated to cost Africa $13.8bn in lost gross domestic product, Moeti said.
COVID pandemic’s ‘acute phase’ could end by midyear: WHO
In other words, while I'm seeing low Covid-19 cases in Sub-Saharan Africa, it has been done at the cost of driving people into extreme poverty because they have shut the economy down.
I'm seeing a strange pattern in estimated infections at IHME (Institute for Health Metrics).
IHME | COVID-19 Projections
The peak was about December 20th, about a month before it reached a peak in this country. Now it has subsided to about what it was before the omicron portion already, but is projected to not go any further down up to June 1st. I'm assuming probably it will be like that indefinitely. In contrast, in America, it will continue to drop precipitously up to June 1st, it is projected.
They are fully vaccinated at 9% now in Sub-Saharan Africa. At June 1st, it is projected it will be 14%.
Putting it all together the economic shutdown will continue, with devastating consequences in Africa.
This is a consequence of rich countries being selfish about distributing vaccines. The lack of global solidarity will really hurt Africa, and perhaps the rest of the world due to Covid-19 given time produce a strain even more devastating. In the long run, that might be good if this does wreak the whole world, because then the world will realize that the good of the whole is the good of the individual nation and taken more decisive action on climate change, which in my estimation is a much greater threat to humanity in the long run.
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