The experience in sub-Saharan Africa calls both these narratives into question: Africa's numbers have been far, far lower than the experts warned would be the case.
Richard Wamai at Northeastern University rejects the claim it's all about case reporting, and says that "Local systems for reporting deaths in Africa make it difficult to hide COVID-19 casualties." In a paper for the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Wamai and his coauthors conclude, "[T]here is no evidence that COVID-19 mortality data is less accurately reported in Africa than elsewhere" and "While the true picture of infections and mortality in the continent has yet to fully emerge, the quality of data for other diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, indicates that Africa has the capacity to collect and report valid disease surveillance data."
In any case, the World Health Organization reports that covid deaths in Africa make up only 2.9 percent of covid deaths, while Africa's population is 16 percent of the global total.
Africa's covid total could double or triple, and Africa would still be faring far better than Europe and the Americas.
It looks increasingly likely that the lack of covid mortality in Africa is not due to a data issue nor a situation in which covid has been "Contained" up until now.
In Africa, not surprisingly, we find that obesity rates are far below those found in North America and Europe.
"In fact, it's amazing Africa has not been overcome by mass death considering that covid lockdowns and covid"mitigation" measures have contributed to the impoverishment and mass starvation on the continent.
https://mises.org/wire/low-vaccination-rates-africas-covid-deaths-remain-far-below-europe-and-us
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