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In countries where sanitation is an issue will the infection rate ever slow and when people from countries who have it controlled travel to those countries does it restart ?

I think I have more questions now that I watched the video than I do answers :)

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Countries with worse sanitation also tend to have slower transportation and less population shuffling.

In the times of plague the places that suffered the least were:

- sparsely populated

- didn't participated much in the international trade

- used quarantines on the borders early

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/bubonic-plague-spares-pola...

In modern times there is plenty of transportation and shuffling in crowded countries with poor sanitation. Remember it only takes a tiny bit of travel to spread a virus far and wide. I would predict things will get very bad in many parts of Latin America, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.

There's a big difference between average daily commute being 5 km and 50 km.

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