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Highly significant that the two wealthy western countries with the worst problems of social inequality and deprivation - the US and UK - have accounted for nearly half of all global COVID-19 deaths to date.
I've been asked what evidence I've used to infer that this apparent correlation is "highly significant". Well, here is part of the answer. It's up-to-the-minute information that is directly relevant to the epidemiology of COVID-19.
Those in deprived areas have double death rates of affluent areas, new statistics show. I strongly suspect this explains slowly falling UK hospital admissions at a time when symptomatic cases in the country as a whole have plummeted from 2.1M to 350,000.

theguardian.com/politics/live/…
The higher death rate correlates with higher incidence of active symptomatic cases reported via the KCL tracker app - telling us that the epidemic propagates more successfully in deprived areas as well as causing higher mortality there.
Clearly, in countries where concentrations of poverty are considered a necessary evil, and in the view of some, even necessary for economic dynamism, we will see this persistence of high hospital admissions and deaths well after other countries have ended their epidemics.
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