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I don't see any proof of that so far. Certainly not in Europe. Maybe when countries with lower quality health infrastructures start to run out of available places or prioritise according to who pays more.It spreads to all - but the risk to die from it or get into serious conditions that later on impact you more - is higher for the poorer people.
It is partly because of things like prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Asian and Black communities which is comfortably the most common comorbidity for Covid-19. Socio-economic factors may have an influence on who gets that in the first place, but studies have shown those groups are more susceptible to type 2 even with all else being equal. There is nothing I have seen that proves poor people are more at risk simply because they are poor. You certainly would not class Asian medics in the UK as being poor.Minorities are disproportionately represented in the death figures in the UK. Think they account 30% of deaths when they make up 13% of the population. Could be due to cramped living conditions and multi-generational living arrangements common in Asian communities in particular. A lot of the medical professionals that have died in the UK seem to have been Asian too.
It's similar to men being more susceptible. Is it because men are really more susceptible, or is it because men are more likely to smoke and be overweight?
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