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What is the Million Death Study? How has Africa navigated COVID-19 relatively unscathed and for God’s sake can someone give us some Happy Science news? All that and more on this week’s Viral Particle mini-sode.
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- https://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/their-own-hands-kibera-kenyas-largest-slum-tames-covid-19#slideshow-0
- https://www.vogue.com/article/david-avido-free-mask-kibera-nairobi-kenya-uweza
- https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/pandemic-appears-have-spared-africa-so-far-scientists-are-struggling-explain-why
- https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/09/18/913937122/kenya-braced-for-the-worst-the-worst-didnt-happen-why
- https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus-covid-19
- https://reliefweb.int/report/south-africa/social-environmental-factors-seen-behind-africa-s-low-covid-19-cases
- https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/09/25/914073217/why-the-pandemic-could-change-the-way-we-record-deaths
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Science
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- https://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/their-own-hands-kibera-kenyas-largest-slum-tames-covid-19#slideshow-0
- https://www.vogue.com/article/david-avido-free-mask-kibera-nairobi-kenya-uweza
- https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/pandemic-appears-have-spared-africa-so-far-scientists-are-struggling-explain-why
- https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/09/18/913937122/kenya-braced-for-the-worst-the-worst-didnt-happen-why
- https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus-covid-19
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