A dissymmetry in the figures re lated to the covid-19 pandemic in the world: what factors explain the difference between africa and the rest of the world?

Cheikh Faye; Cheikh Tidiane Wade; Ibrahima Demba Dione

A dissymmetry in the figures re lated to the covid-19 pandemic in the world: what factors explain the difference between africa and the rest of the world?

Abstract

Humanity has experienced outbreaks for millennia, from epidemics limited to pandemics that have claimed many victims and changed the course of civilizations. The advent of vaccines has eradicated some of the serious pathogens and reduced many others. However, pandemics are still part of our modern world, as we continue to have pandemics as devastating as HIV and as alarming as severe acute respiratory syndrome, Ebola and the Middle East respiratory syndrome. The Covid-19 epidemic with 0-exponential contamination curves reaching 3 million confirmed cases should not have come as a surprise, nor should it have been the last pandemic in the world. In this article, we try to summarize the lost opportunities as well as the lessons learned, hoping that we can do better in the future. The objective of this study is to relate the situation of Covid-19 in African countries with those of the countries most affected by the pandemic. It also allows us to verify how, according to the observed situation, the African ecosystem seems to be much more resilient compared to that of other continents where the number of deaths is in the thousands. To verify this, the diagnosed morbidity and mortality reported for different states of the world are compared to the ages of life and the average annual temperature of these states. The results show that the less dramatic balance of the African continent compared to other continents is partly linked to the relatively high temperatures on the continent but also to the relatively young character of its population.

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Primary Language

English

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Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Cheikh Faye This is me
Senegal

Cheikh Tidiane Wade This is me
Senegal

Ibrahima Demba Dione This is me
Senegal

Publication Date

December 31, 2020

Submission Date

October 13, 2020

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Year 2020 Volume: 5 Number: 2

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