Monday, August 31, 2020

Hydroxychloroquine Is Why Uganda, With A Population Of 43 Million, Has Only 15 Covid-19 Deaths – DC Clothesline

Uganda, a country in east-central Africa, has a 2018 population of 42.729 million, which is 13% of the United States’ population of 328.239 million in 2019. And yet Uganda has 1,603 COVID-19 cases and just 15 deaths (h/t Rush Limbaugh), wherease the U.S. has 5,656,744 COVID-19 cases and 175,105 deaths. That means:

* Uganda’s number of COVID-19 cases is only 0.028% of the number of U.S. COVID-19 cases; and

* Uganda’s number of COVID-19 deaths is only 0.008% of the number of U.S. COVID-19 deaths.

How can that be, when Uganda is one of the poorest countries in the world, with a per capita GDP of $769 (37.8% of the population in 2012 lived on less than $1.25 a day) and a poor healthcare system.

This is why:

Uganda is afflicted with malaria, a disease caused by parasites that enter the body through the bite of a mosquito…

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