Posted on 12/18/2020 10:39:34 AM PST by Onthebrink
A new study makes a startling claim: You have a higher risk of dying from coronavirus if you are poor.
A New Study
People residing in Scotland’s poorest regions have a higher chance of dying from the novel coronavirus compared to those living in more affluent areas, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow.
Considered the first nationwide study of its kind and published in the journal The Lancet Regional Health—Europe, the research also discovered that patients from the most economically disadvantaged regions were more at risk of intensive care unit admission and that those less-funded hospitals were more likely to be at or over capacity.
“A number of factors could be driving this link between poverty and severe disease, including poor housing, increased use of public transport, and financial pressures to continue working,” lead researcher Dr. Nazir Lone, a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, said in a news release.
“The most deprived communities, and the hospitals that serve them, will need extra support as the pandemic continues.”
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Isn’t obesity a risk factor? Are the poor not more likely to be obese?
diabetes
I don’t buy this for a second.
If people would just take Vitamin D and some other vitamins/minerals, it would help them immensely.
Comrades, looks like we’d better redistribute the wealth to save lives!
What’s “startling” about that? Aren’t you more likely to die if many different things if you’re poor?
Because you are oppressed! And the oppressors are white people with jobs! And da Jews.
The Corona has guns and checks your bank account!
The poor, huh? What about the ugly?
Women, children, poor and minorities hardest hit................
What?!? Government universal health care isn’t universally equal?!!? Who would have thunk it ..
And if you live in a Lib state your Business (def) and employees(possibly) and probably YOU will die(of depression).
Personal Hygiene Matters
Same for flu, measles, Lyme disease, malnutrition, diabetes, typhoid, a traffic accident, food poisoning, an abusive alcoholic parent, a drug overdose, a drive by drug deal gone bad..,
Ranks right up there with the claim that people who live on the North Pole have a higher risk of freezing to death.;-) Except for Santa, of course.
OK, no problem. Get an education, get a better job, or marry up.
99% of the Cuban population is poor and they did alright. If this author was right most would be dead.
Sucks to be “poor” then.
(Not that there are many poor Americans, even our “poor” are the rich in terms of all of human experience.)
And that’s okay.
Being poor should suck.
It sucking encourages people to want to escape poverty.
The lure of so-called “progressivism” and the welfare state is poverty that don’t suck as bad as it should ... which lets nere-do-wells dream of proverbial hammocks.
Trickle up poverty.
Democrat shell games continue unabated by rational thought.
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