So covid-19 could soon be all over poor countries. And their health-care systems are in no position to cope. Many cannot deal with the infectious diseases they already know, let alone a new and highly contagious one. Health spending per head in Pakistan is one two-hundredth the level in America. Uganda has more government ministers than intensive-care beds. Throughout history, the poor have been hardest-hit by pandemics. Most people who die of AIDS are African. *The Spanish flu wiped out 6% of India’s entire population.*
“The coronavirus could devastate poor countries”, The Economist, 2020년 3월 26일. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/03/26/covid-19-could-devastate-poor-countries
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