Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[vivster]

Lafiel said:

JRPGfan said:

In Southeastern Africa, theres a country called Malawi which by resent estimates has a population of 18million people.
They have 7 ventilators, and laboratory capacity to test at most, 20 people pr day. They have 25 ICU bed spaces in hospitals.

Can you imagine?

while that stat is alarming, the median age of Malawi is ~18 years, so if age is the by far largest factor in the deadliness of the disease (highly eclipsing nutrition etc), then they won't be hit tooo hard I imagine

The largest factor isn't age but overall health, which which just correlates with age. If you have a young population that's malnourished and sick you will see the same result as other countries, if not worse.

Malawi has high infant mortality, general life expency of 50 years and a gigantic number of HIV infected. I'm not a doctor but I believe in medical terms they're pretty "fucked" if covid ever spreads there.