The post mentions lack of vaccines as a potential problem for the Congo, among other third world countries, but also says that there seems to be slack in the control systems. Important relevant fact here: in the Congo, ~40% of the population is under 15 years old (compared to ~20% in the US; source is world factbook). 40-50% under 15 seems pretty typical for third world—Aysajan and I were reading through stats on countries with high child hunger last week, and most of them were in that band.
So, the younger population should make third-world countries a lot more robust to COVID by default.
The post mentions lack of vaccines as a potential problem for the Congo, among other third world countries, but also says that there seems to be slack in the control systems. Important relevant fact here: in the Congo, ~40% of the population is under 15 years old (compared to ~20% in the US; source is world factbook). 40-50% under 15 seems pretty typical for third world—Aysajan and I were reading through stats on countries with high child hunger last week, and most of them were in that band.
So, the younger population should make third-world countries a lot more robust to COVID by default.