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Re:The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered by black_puppydog on Friday April 23, 2021 @03:03PM (#26918000)
I think the point was mostly that comparing the case/fatality numbers of covid19 - a truly global pandemic - with those of malaria has to factor in the size of the population being exposed.

Sure, Malaria is unlikely to spread like covid or it would have done so a long time ago, but the absolute numbers don't tell the whole story about how bad each disease is.

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Re:The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered by eloff on Friday April 23, 2021 @03:14PM (#26918108)
Actually malaria used to be in much larger areas of the world, including the United States. But the population was much smaller at that time.

It's a good point about absolute numbers versus population relative numbers.

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