African Health Summit; Lessons from a forgotten continent

BY SIMONE J. SMITH

We are witnessing the highest rates of infection, hospitalization, and death in the nations that are most “vaccinated” Dr Geert Vanden Boscche (Virologist, Immunologist, and Vaccinologist)

There is absolutely no way that I can rehash the amount of information that was delivered at the African Health Summit, a three-day panel discussion that was held Wednesday, November 17^th, 2021 – Friday, November 19^th, 2021. Dr Naseeba Kathrada, a representative from the World Council for Health, hosted the summit, and revered doctors, scientists, journalists and activists from around the world joined her to speak on the impact of the pandemic and how it has affected Africa.

The World Council for Health partnered with the Caring Healthcare Workers Coalition in South Africa. They did an outstanding job of selecting strong speakers that shared a wealth of knowledge on topics ranging from vaccinations to country updates. My suggestion after reading over this brief summary is to watch the entire summit that can be found on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3ZTFxNtyV0i9lOMkyas5uw.

I learned some interesting facts that I would like to share with you, one being that Africa has accounted for a relatively small number of deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic, and that there are lessons we can learn about how the continent has handled the pandemic.

Africa has utilized their unrecognized strengths to help fend off COVID-19, and they have offered clues and strategies that could possibly be applied against future pandemics. Africa represents 12.5% of the global population, but it accounted for just 4% of the 3.4 million deaths that had been reported around the world.

There were some experts who predicted that Africa would suffer excessively during this pandemic, and these beliefs were based on the fact that they felt the continent would be vulnerable to poverty, unsanitary living conditions, and weak healthcare systems. Instead, national and local governments already had healthcare systems in place to deal with HIV/AIDS, Ebola, and other epidemics.

Local systems for reporting deaths in Africa make it difficult to hide COVID-19 casualties, and some of the excess deaths of the past year can be attributed not to COVID-19, but to lockdown measures that cut off access to medical care for other illnesses, as well as other necessities.

There were other factors as to why Africa has been faring so well, including a preponderance of countries where people spend more time outside than on other continents. Africa also has the youngest population among global regions, with a median age of 19.7 years that is roughly half as young as that of the United States (38.5) and the United Kingdom (40.5), which have been hit hard by the pandemic. It is also important to note that people in Africa suffer a relatively low burden of non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and cancer, which increase the risk of dying from COVID-19.

With that positive news, there are some severe economic issues occurring in places like South Africa. The pandemic, and lockdowns, in South Africa came at a time when the most vulnerable groups had lost income and were living under immense hardship. In January 2021, 39% of households ran out of money to buy food and 17% of household’s experienced weekly household hunger.

Food price inflation has increased. School feeding programmes, which many children relied on, have been closed, and with the current violence, some areas are plagued with food shortages. As this third wave progresses, economic activity is expected to contract even more now with the current violent protests with the likely fallout for workers, businesses, and communities.

After a 7% economic contraction in GDP in 2020, the economy continues to shed jobs as the unemployment rate reaches a record high of 32.6%. The current protests will only exacerbate the crises that have partly led to the popular element of the protests themselves, thus creating a vicious cycle.

One important topic of discussion was vaccines. Many of the panellists spoke on this, revealing the grim reality of vaccine-induced antibody mediated selection. It came as no surprise that doctors on the panel were reporting that the so-called “vaccines” were wreaking havoc on individuals and populations. Below is a list of what has been observed:

• Damaged immune systems
• Enhanced coronavirus disease
• Dangerous new variants
• Injection victims becoming super-spreaders
• Blocking of the development of healthy herd immunity that would be achieved without these injections
• Disruptions of the innate immunity in young and old, “vaccinated” and “unvaccinated”, that will cause: severe coronavirus disease; worsening of many other infections that will break through the damaged immune systems; autoimmune diseases; and crippling persistent effects on children’s immune systems

Contrary to the prevailing narrative seen in the media, it was clearly explained that as a global nation, we cannot vaccinate ourselves out of this coronavirus pandemic and, according to many experts, mass vaccinating during a pandemic may cause more harm than good. It looks like the Western world should be taking some notes from their African counterparts.