Authored by: Andrew Resnick, Sandro Galea and Karthik Sivashanker
Coronavirus disease (covid-19) provides a painful reminder of why inequities harm all of us. Equity is widely misunderstood as a zero-sum game—i.e. the gain of one individual or group results in the loss to another. Yet, covid-19 is able to enter and quickly spread because of the social cracks and fissures generated by inequities.