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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

Sydney, New South Wales
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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 21

      Headline: "COVID-19 pandemic impacts rich people less" Epidemiologists everywhere: yes, this is true of ALL HUMAN DISEASE. WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU FOR YEARS

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 21

      It'd be nice if from this global tragedy came a better understanding of the nightmarish social aspects of disease, but my guess is as soon as COVID-19 is gone most people will go back to not caring very much about it

      1:00 PM - 21 Feb 2021
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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 21

          If you want a quick introduction to the topic at a global scale, the @WHO produced this report in 2008 that is still very applicable todayhttps://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-IER-CSDH-08.1 …

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 21

          For a simple visual representation, here is a famous map of the London Jubilee line showing how each stop further from the city resulted in a decrease of 1 year of life expectancy in the early 2000spic.twitter.com/DEjsh3YePI

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        4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 24

          I wrote up a more detailed explanation of all of this in a blog:https://gidmk.medium.com/wealth-protects-against-covid-19-harms-731e09cd97d0 …

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        1. Balgor‏ @Balgor11 Feb 21
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          Until the next pandemic.

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        1. Nik Kolb‏ @nik_kolb Feb 21
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          It might even get worse: „We spend so much on health care now… let’s focus on other areas“

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        1. HusserlWalked  🥛‏ @WalkedMy Feb 21
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          Excuse me? Lots of us knew this perfectly well, which is why we remain mystified at the imposition of lockdowns, recommended by epidemiologists, which basically created a feudal system of deliberately focusing all risk on the poor.

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        1. Paul Tanto‏ @paul_tanto Feb 21
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          If we let them.

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        1. Zaphod‏ @MinvstrD Feb 21
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          "it" being poverty.

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        1. Tom Murphy and 1,573 others‏ @DeVore Feb 22
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          Like mental health!

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        1. Carolina_Humanity_First 🧢‏ @_Carolina_Yang_ Feb 22
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          I, for one, pledge wholeheartedly to not forget about this. And I’ll do whatever I can in my capacity as just a regular human being to make it better. Life isn’t fair. But we - humankind - have the power to make it better.

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