The AIDS epidemic has given South Africa vast knowledge of how to—and how not to—tackle infectious diseases like covid-19
year of the past two decades more than a third of deaths in South Africa have been-related. Thabo Mbeki, the president from 1999 to 2008, swallowed a crank theory he found online that the human immunodeficiency virus does not cause, which it does. He delayed life-saving treatment, cutting short hundreds of thousands of lives. The pandemic struck down adults in their productive prime, leaving grandmothers to raise orphans.
The doctors advising the government recognise that South Africa can only delay, rather than avoid, an eventual escalation in cases. But their aim is to buy the country time, so it can add critical-care beds, prepare quarantine facilities and build field hospitals. “We can’t pretend we are going to dodge the bullet,” says Dr David. “That would be naive.”
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