It has attended numerous press conferences, shot tens of questions to Ministry of Health officials and studied tomes of research papers on the Covid-19 pandemic. And those two studies, coming hot on the heels of each other, illustrate how hard it has become to plot the trajectory of Covid-19 in Kenya. But Prof Kariuki Njenga of the Washington State University and a senior research officer at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri), thinks that Kenya might not get to the predicted horrors. But these do not cause Covid-19, so how did exposure to them help us develop immunity against Sarc-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19? Apart from the immunity and institutional structures, Prof Kariuki says it helps that the population in Kenya is majorly young, with a median age of 20 years.

Source: Daily Nation May 31, 2020 08:26 UTC