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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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
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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 …1 reply 30 retweets 176 likesShow this thread -
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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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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