The bottom three lines, almost too thin to see, in this Financial Times graphic of daily coronavirus deaths represent a population of over six billion people.pic.twitter.com/GBISZZq8fw
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A pandemic that (so far) spares kids and most of the poorest countries on the planet is an extraordinarily lucky throw of the dice. You can think of it as a vaccine for the global public health system—it has hit us hard, but will ensure we are ready for much worse in the future
Let's admit that if the prevalence of this disease were inverted—it struck mostly poor countries in the global south, with a similar death rate—the covid-19 pandemic would be page 19 news, and all the articles would be about how we can keep it out of developed countries.
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