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Re:Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast? by freediddy on Friday June 26, 2026 @11:23AM (#48687749)
This is completely false. Areas of the world with much lower vaccination rates like India and especially Africa has much lower death rates from COVID than Western countries with much higher rates of vaccination.

During the pandemic, the media was talking about how much death there would be in these under-vaccinated countries, and then it turned out their death rates were much lower.

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Re:Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast? by WarmWash on Friday June 26, 2026 @12:36PM (#48688644)
Are you aware that places with poor resources and low/no record keeping have all sorts of crazy statistics?

Obviously when doing analysis we wanted to compare solid data with solid data. Not some NGO worker asking the tribal medicine man how many COVID deaths they have had..."6 witchcraft deaths, 4 bad spirits, and 3 might have been coughing?".

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Re:Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast? by AndrewDucker on Friday June 26, 2026 @03:34PM (#48690969)
India had the second highest number of cases and the third highest number of deaths.

And that's before you start taking into account the terrible record tracking and lack of testing.

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