Just-so storytelling about places that avoid coronavirus is proving to be an irresistible journalistic form. Here's a fawning profile of Kerala's "rock star" health minister, who sounds awesome. Kerala has had only four deaths for 35 million people.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/14/the-coronavirus-slayer-how-keralas-rock-star-health-minister-helped-save-it-from-covid-19 …
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I've been reading these examples of yours with interest and I'm very curious: do you have any guesses for what might be going on here? Or are you just pointing out that we're missing something big and nobody has a good explanation?
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I don't have a good guess. I'm pointing out that there's clearly something else going on, but I'm not being coy—I don't know what that factor is.
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Your scepticism is right about proper testing and contact tracing being solely responsible for the insignificant spread in SSA. But it’s been an important factor in other places so can’t dismiss as a factor here too, even if not the primary one.
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Entirely believable that the countries profiled have had a better testing and contact tracing response than the US and other countries. Which btw are not *all* SSA countries (there are 50+)
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To attribute all excess deaths to this coronavirus is to say that increasing both poverty and unavailability of medical services, to say nothing of other effects of the shutdown, produces no excess deaths; did we think the Recession of 2008 was good for health?
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