The Urgent Need to Improve Health Equity

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As the first wave of the COVID pandemic washed across the world, it left devastation in its wake. The novel coronavirus rent holes in our social safety nets, nets already worn and tattered even before the pandemic took hold. And what quickly became evident was that the resulting devastation was persistently most acute among disadvantaged people and in marginalized communities.

Infectious disease also thrives on inequity. It spreads fastest in areas of dense crowding, and because it typically affects impoverished and relatively powerless communities, it is underfunded and undertreated. Before COVID, tuberculosis killed more people globally than any other communicable disease. The pandemic made this worse as people crowded together inside their homes and became infected by one airborne virus while trying to avoid another.

 

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I saw no solutions in your article. The argument was weak and inconsistent. Exceptionally vague. Are you comparing countries? I love how the disease of the rich migrates to poor communities. That does sound equitable, doesn't it? Diet, exercise and honesty any one?

SA used to be a science publication. You are now just another liberal dystopian propaganda rag. You sacrifice facts for your leftist ideology. You are now cast aside with the likes of NPR and WAPo. I want to read about science, not be lectured about how bad America is. Bye bye.

It's all about how much stolen energy you can give to satan and bitches electric puffball. Now, across the board, the so-called separate insurance companies (all dead realm) ensure you have high rent, high deductibles, and low pay to keep you desperate and hope you fall for B.S.

'Health equity' is yet another meaningless woke nonsense.

So are you advocating for equity or equality in health care? The word equity is very misleading.

The sun is cold

All those rankings that don't have the US as having the best medical care should have an asterisk - we have the best medical care for those who can afford it.

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