Some public health experts contend that social and economic conditions are even more powerful indicators of who will survive the pandemic.
“If they do have chronic conditions such as hypertension or diabetes,” Frieden said, “the health system doesn’t work as well for them, and they are less likely to have it under control.”
Research shows that “stress, economic disadvantage, economic deprivation not only affect the people experiencing it, but it’s passed on from one generation to another,” Woolf said. Health insurance is only part of the problem, she said. When Woodward asked one woman why she waited so long to seek treatment for her breast tumor, the woman said, “I just got a ride.”
There are few hospitals in the region, an area the size of West Virginia, and most lack intensive care units.
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