@canidmajor Historically, human trials of vaccines are usually run in poor and impoverished communities of color. The way they spin it as them doing South Africa a favor is a load of crock.
If you look at John Hopkins death rate per capita, South Africa has one of the lowest death rates per capita (#16 out of 17).
But there would be more backlash if they used humans as guinea pigs in the UK (#1), Canada (#5), or US (#7).
Don’t get me wrong. There is an absolute need for a vaccine. But to spin it as they are doing them a favor makes this article seem pretty disingenuous.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
An interesting paper on this:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4428044/