COVID-19 reality check: do black lives really matter?
Consider this:
1- COVID-19 worldwide
· 880,000+ deaths so far
· A vaccine is coming within 12 months of the pandemic start or less
· Therapeutics: ditto
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
2- Malaria in Africa
· Over the last 50 years, malaria has killed over 25 million people.
· Every 2 minutes, a child under 5 dies of malaria. In 2017, there were 219 million malaria cases leading to 435,000 deaths. Of these 61% were children under 5 translating into a daily toll of nearly 730 children. Most of these deaths occurred in Sub-Saharan Africa.
· In 2018, Africa was home to 94% of malaria deaths.
- Malaria cases are rising in Africa due to drug resistance (1/16/2020).
https://www.statista.com/chart/20527/malaria-cases-rising-in-africa/
https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-health/malaria/
https://ourworldindata.org/malaria
http://www.healthdata.org/research-article/global-malaria-mortality-between-1980-and-2010-systematic-analysis
· Where is the vaccine?
. Where is the funding to researchers with proven preliminary results?
· Where is the single-intake efficient and well-tolerated oral drug?
This is just a glimpse showing how much black lives matter in Africa:
- Where is the outrage?
- Where is the demand for change?