| dc.description.abstract | Humanity has experienced outbreaks for millennia, from epidemics limited to pandemics that have claimed many victims and
changed the course of civilizations. The advent of vaccines has eradicated some of the serious pathogens and reduced many
others. However, pandemics are still part of our modern world, as we continue to have pandemics as devastating as HIV and as
alarming as severe acute respiratory syndrome, Ebola and the Middle East respiratory syndrome. The Covid-19 epidemic with
0-exponential contamination curves reaching 3 million confirmed cases should not have come as a surprise, nor should it have
been the last pandemic in the world. In this article, we try to summarize the lost opportunities as well as the lessons learned,
hoping that we can do better in the future. The objective of this study is to relate the situation of Covid-19 in African countries
with those of the countries most affected by the pandemic. It also allows us to verify how, according to the observed situation,
the African ecosystem seems to be much more resilient compared to that of other continents where the number of deaths is in
the thousands. To verify this, the diagnosed morbidity and mortality reported for different states of the world are compared to
the ages of life and the average annual temperature of these states. The results show that the less dramatic balance of the
African continent compared to other continents is partly linked to the relatively high temperatures on the continent but also to
the relatively young character of its population. | en_US |
