Covid-19 in South Africa - perspective is needed
CATEGORY: Media and COVID-19
DATE: 26 May 2020
AUTHOR: Daily Maverick
DATE: 26 May 2020
AUTHOR: Daily Maverick
by Michael Cosser
Covid-19 has caused us to lose perspective on various fronts. One main front is the burden of disease. In a country in which many thousands of people die each year from treatable diseases like TB and Type 2 diabetes, an exclusive focus on the mortal impact of Covid-19, while understandable, is misplaced.
This is not another piece about the epidemiology of Covid-19 by an amateur epidemiologist, but an article about the need to place the pandemic in perspective.
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