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BobRussRelick t1_j5be1u2 wrote

Reply to comment by Alternative-Flan2869 in How Covid-19 vaccines succeeded in saving a million US lives, in charts by ILikeNeurons

correlation is not causation sorry, Africa had minimal vaccination or masking and also low covid deaths

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coffeesharkpie t1_j5bflc0 wrote

Are you seriously comparing the US to Africa? Just look at stats of mean age, obesity, climate, time spent outside, and those immunsystems hardend by things like malary...

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BobRussRelick t1_j5bljdf wrote

exactly my point with New Zealand

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coffeesharkpie t1_j5bzuc7 wrote

While I see your point and agree with it mostly. One could still make a case that at least in some key metrics like average age, life expectancy, physicians per 1000 inhabitants NZ and the USA are rather similar. While e.g. the average South African is roughly 10 years younger (38 vs 28 yrs)...

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