I continue to be impressed by Vietnam’s success in keeping COVID out despite sharing a land border with three other countries. Resisting China for milennia seems to promote resistance.
I’ve also been very surprised by this. It almost makes me wonder whether a large part of the population has natural immunity either genetically or from some past viral event that infected a large enough part of the country to drop the R0 of COVID below 1.
I continue to be impressed by Vietnam’s success in keeping COVID out despite sharing a land border with three other countries. Resisting China for milennia seems to promote resistance.
I’ve also been very surprised by this. It almost makes me wonder whether a large part of the population has natural immunity either genetically or from some past viral event that infected a large enough part of the country to drop the R0 of COVID below 1.