Jan 30, 2022
Africa may have reached the pandemic’s holy grail
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in category: biotech/medical
When the results of his study came in, Kondwani Jambo was stunned.
He’s an immunologist in Malawi. And last year he had set out to determine just how many people in his country had been infected with the coronavirus since the pandemic began.
Jambo, who works for the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, knew the total number of cases was going to be higher than the official numbers. But his study revealed that the scale of spread was beyond anything he had anticipated — with a huge majority of Malawians infected long before the omicron variant emerged. “I was very shocked,” he says.
Continue reading “Africa may have reached the pandemic’s holy grail” »