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Inequality kills: How race, money and power affect who survives Covid-19

The data from 440 000 Covid-19 patients show that black people in South Africa were far more likely to die than their white counterparts

  • Waasila Jassat, Cheryl Cohen & Nicholas Crisp
7 min read
Up to one in five people can get long COVID — a condition in which someone keeps on feeling ill for months after their initial symptoms have cleared up. (Paul Botes)
ACCESSIBLE HEALTHCARE

The Covid pandemic has exacerbated weaknesses in health systems, particularly in poor countries

Strategic investments in health care for all are needed to ensure safe births, treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, measles, pneumonia and diarrhoea, and children are vaccinated

  • Carin Jämtin
  • Stefan Swartling Peterson
6 min read