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- 07 24, 2024
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ON MAY 7THSARSCVThe EconomistThe Economist Today an article appeared on medRxiv, an online repository for medical research. It showed, for England at least, the degrees to which -o-2, the virus that causes covid-19, discriminates in its deadliness between various groups of people. Men are more likely to die than women. The old and the socially deprived more likely than the young, well-off and well-connected. Those with uncontrolled diabetes or severe asthma, more likely than those without. And members of the country’s ethnic minorities more likely than those of its white majority.