Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, 1153 Centre Street, Boston, MA 02130, USA.
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
J Natl Med Assoc. 2020 Oct;112(5):531-532. doi: 10.1016/j.jnma.2020.05.013. Epub 2020 Jun 26.
Socioeconomic inequities have direct implications in COVID presentation, severity of illness and prognosis. From practice of prophylactic measures to availability of personal protective equipment, from access to diagnostic tests to treatment resources, there are many facets and distinct disease processes of a virus that, among many things, serves to expose and highlight our global disparities.
社会经济不平等现象对 COVID-19 的表现、疾病严重程度和预后有直接影响。从预防措施的实施到个人防护设备的供应，从获得诊断测试到治疗资源，病毒的许多方面和不同的疾病过程都存在差异，而这些差异在很多方面都暴露和凸显了我们全球的差距。
