Having spent time in Kenya, I was curious about how COVID was affecting their population. I looked it up, to find that their rates were, in general, somewhat lower than other popuations. I wondered why, and its because their senior population is only 17% of that total population. And then I remembered that back in the 90s, HIV was running rampant in Kenya, killing middle aged men and women, so that the older population was today, much smaller than normal. The Nairobi newspaper would have pages and pages of obits for people under 50. Epi does indeed matter.
Having spent time in Kenya, I was curious about how COVID was affecting their population. I looked it up, to find that their rates were, in general, somewhat lower than other popuations. I wondered why, and its because their senior population is only 17% of that total population. And then I remembered that back in the 90s, HIV was running rampant in Kenya, killing middle aged men and women, so that the older population was today, much smaller than normal. The Nairobi newspaper would have pages and pages of obits for people under 50. Epi does indeed matter.