“Discussions about the covid-19 pandemic’s effects tend to focus either on public health or the economy, as if they were two separate matters. But they are linked, and not just by data about the disease’s disproportionate impact on poor and minority populations. The worldwide economic devastation from lockdown policies is sending millions into poverty — increasing their exposure to potential covid-19 infection as well as to the deadly threat that comes simply from being poor.
As challenging — and vitally important — as fighting the pandemic has been, the long-term health costs of an economic depression could ultimately far eclipse what covid-19 has wrought.”
Read the full piece on The Washington Post.
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