Health Equity

Opinion | We Did Not Suffer Equally

Abstract: The pandemic has not been a story of an infection curve rising and falling, but of two lines — the haves and have-nots — moving in different directions.

Publication: The New York Times

Date Published: March 8, 2021

Author(s): Yaryna Serkez

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