Lafiel said:
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 |
This is actually a good point. I just looked, and also noticed their life expectancy is like 60years.... O_o
(maybe I read this wrong, but for women after childbirth its 50years! wow)
vivster said:
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. |
Another good point.
Supposedly 12%+ of the population has HIV/AIDs.
And a ton of other illnesses, that are rampant there, which in the western world, we dont have to anywhere near that extent.
If your already dealing with other things, and get this virus ontop, it might be harder to come out on top.
What would be messed up is if like a 100 years or more from now, you go back and look at how many with HIV/AIDs this killed, and concluded that it killing so many with it, actually slowed HIV/AIDs spread to the point where it actually saved more lives, down the line.
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