COVID-19 Like Many Pandemic Size Epidemics, Is Capable Of Devastating Entire Communities And Countries

India has not hidden her demise following COVID-19 infections and deaths.

Many are stipulating and Talking-heads are saying this and that.

It is true, at the household level pain, devastation and desolation are felt in form of hard hitting blows.

There are lessons to learn as well as a call to support all countries to have their people vaccinated before deadlier strains are let loose.

We don't want situations where the present vaccines will have no efficacy against emerging COVID-19 strains.

We want to be able to address the other existing diseases such as TB, Malaria, HIV and Ebola.

When we let COVID-19 go unchecked, it is likened to putting a wild leopard in our lap. Let us be pro-active. We can be super aggressive but unfortunately we wait until death has occurred to start doing what we should have done.

Preventing negligence is good public health. We have to be on our tenterhooks.

The world has been dealt pandemics, but today we have the means to prevent adversity.

In 429-426 BCE: Plague of Anthens that killed 75,000-100,000 people.

In 165-180 BCE: The Antonine plague killed 5-10 million people.

In 1889-1890 a flu pandemic called the Asiatic flu killed 1 million people.

Between January 1918 to December 1920, an H1N1 virus pandemic also known as the Spanish flu killed 17-50 million people.

In 1900-1920 in Uganda, Trypanosomiasis led to displacement and deaths of many people.

HIV/AIDS has killed between 32,000,000-50,000,000 people.

Between 2013-2017, Zika, Yellow fever, Ebola killed many people.

In 2019, the Samoa/Congo measles killed many people.

It is said that the stress, malnutrition, overcrowding, low hygiene all promote microorganismal super infections.

At the same time, the super infections trigger a cytokine storm which turn against the immune system thereby exposing already vulnerable persons to adversity.

Governments provide facilitation to prevent adversities befalling people. This is a call upon all governments to do so much to protect people against COVID-19.


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