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29 April — A Chilean city’s COVID toll reflects its vast inequalities
In Santiago, COVID-19 dealt the hardest blow to people with low socioeconomic status, because of factors such as crowded households, a lack of health care and an inability to work from home.
Death rates were greater in low-income areas of Santiago, especially among people under age 80, than in high-income areas, according to research by Gonzalo Mena, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, and his colleagues (G. E. Mena et al. Science https://doi.org/f9b4; 2021). The team found several explanations for this disparity. Compared with higher-income areas, lower-income neighborhoods had high rates of positive SARS-CoV-2 tests. This suggests that testing there was inadequate — and therefore that efforts based on case numbers to curb the epidemic couldn’t be appropriately targeted.
