Malaria kills about half a million people each year, mostly toddlers. That number could double if normal prevention work isn’t done.
Coronavirus kills around 1% of the people it infects in developed countries, mostly older people. However, it could potentially cause an order of magnitude higher deaths in certain settings (eg refugee camps without adequate sanitation or modern medicine).
If everyone alive were infected this year, I’d expect tens or hundreds of millions of deaths, compared to one million deaths from malaria.
However, I don’t expect everyone to be infected. Governments, NGOs and healthcare workers are all working very hard on this. So although the scale is much larger than malaria, I’m skeptical that the average EA can make a bigger difference donating to coronavirus relief than malaria prevention.
Malaria kills about half a million people each year, mostly toddlers. That number could double if normal prevention work isn’t done.
Coronavirus kills around 1% of the people it infects in developed countries, mostly older people. However, it could potentially cause an order of magnitude higher deaths in certain settings (eg refugee camps without adequate sanitation or modern medicine).
If everyone alive were infected this year, I’d expect tens or hundreds of millions of deaths, compared to one million deaths from malaria.
However, I don’t expect everyone to be infected. Governments, NGOs and healthcare workers are all working very hard on this. So although the scale is much larger than malaria, I’m skeptical that the average EA can make a bigger difference donating to coronavirus relief than malaria prevention.