Local population composition and poverty matters for pandemic preparedness

 
COVID-19 posed one of the most profound public health crises for a hundred years. The full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic (described as ‘excess mortality’) was estimated by the World Health Organisation at a staggering 14.9 million. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it became increasingly clear that deaths were disproportionaly concentrated […]