So I understand where you are coming from but I have earned my view on this so please listen carefully. The centralized systems in for example the USA are screwed. The only thing that will work is stability in families. This is where small villages and extended families help.
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I’ve almost died, if not died indeed, in a city of >500k in rural Ghana (Takoradi) in acute respiratory and kidney failure with typhoid-malaria co-infection. No vent. Cot with no sheets. No ICU available. That’s a lot of Africa.
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They simply won't be able to take care of people with ARDS. I am beginning to believe that, in a way, Italy's present ~8% CFR might be a "best case" compared to what we see in sub-Saharan Africa. I keep looking at the numbers and praying I am wrong.https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/43/6/748/327458#4470699 …
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Vomited Clear gel in a purse until I passed out smothering. Somebody eventually got me a bucket. Sanitation horrible so many places.
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1. Extended families are perfect vectors for the spread of infectious disease. 2. Extended families often rely on the largesse of a rich uncle employed by the government. These safety nets will be utterly overwhelmed. Even more so in oil-based economies like Chad and Sudan (1/3)
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...which are simultaneously being hit with the bottoming out of oil markets. 3. Urbanization is a global trend. This trope of Africa as rural is tired. Every village has economic and familial ties to the capital. Infection freely passes from dads working in the cities to (2/3)
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