# Africa and COVID-19 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [April 1, 2020, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/africa-and-covid-19/850785 "2020-04-01T04:05:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 25
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/africa-and-covid-19/850785/25 "2020-08-09T02:40:35Z")
Bumping to add this. [https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6504/624](https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6504/624) Summarized [here](https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6504/twis) > [@](#): > > With the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic across the globe, experts predicted that Africa would suffer an overwhelming number of cases and deaths, but this seems not to be the case. Despite potential issues with reporting, there may be distinct factors in the African nations that are contributing to reduced mortality from COVID-19. In a Perspective, Mbow _et al._ discuss how the younger age of the population of Africa could limit severe disease. Other factors might also be involved, particularly exposure to other infectious diseases and parasites that could train the immune systems of Africans to better cope with infection --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/africa-and-covid-19/850785)._