COVID-19: why critically ill patients in Africa are taking a bigger hit
IN March 2020, those of us living on the African continent were terrified about what would happen. We had watched Wuhan and then Italy get overrun by Covid-19. These were environments far more resourced than Africa. BRUCE M BICCARD, Professor and Second Chair at Groote Schuur Hospital , University of Cape Town We knew that we had a limited healthcare workforce. And we have estimated that there was about one critical care bed per 100 000 population on the continent. The average across Europe was over 11 per 100 000 population. What scared us, even more, was a lack of…