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Originally Posted by chris08876
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Its also hot in those lands.
Now I'm not saying those numbers are true, as anybody with a cranium will tell you they are undercounted, but could be African heat and immunity might play a role.
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Yesterday, Amazonas state (4 million inh.) registered 10,000 deaths for Covid, given it a 2,500/1,000,000 death rate. Higher than Belgium, the same of New York and New Jersey states. On their pandemic peak, back in May and now once again in January, Manaus, the state capital, was registering 5x more deaths than usual. Keep in mind, Amazonas age average is much lower than Brazil's, which it's still itself a young country (33 y/o as 2020).
And here its weather chart:
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manaus#Clima. 2,300 mm of rainfall, humidity always above 80%, avg max 32C, avg min, 23C. It's on the banks of Amazon River, in the middle of the equatorial rainforest, unbearably humid and hot.
I don't think hot weather is a factor at all.