I have written before about the upside-down burden of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-COV-2 that originated in Wuhan, China. Quite unlike any other disease burden, COVID-19 is more prevalent in places that are richer, live longer, are taller, and have generally higher health status. This is deeply perplexing — although the medico-biological scientific community is too deep into figuring out the etiology of the pandemic to pay attention to the overall pattern. Basically, everything we expected going into the pandemic in February turned out to be wrong. Instead of being negatively correlated with per capita income, socio-development index, mean adult height, life expectancy, protein intake per capita, calorie intake per capita, and absolute latitude, the correlations turned out to be unexpectedly positive. The next figure shows my estimates from the end of May.
Serological Variation and the COVID-19 Death Toll
Serological Variation and the COVID-19 Death…
Serological Variation and the COVID-19 Death Toll
I have written before about the upside-down burden of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-COV-2 that originated in Wuhan, China. Quite unlike any other disease burden, COVID-19 is more prevalent in places that are richer, live longer, are taller, and have generally higher health status. This is deeply perplexing — although the medico-biological scientific community is too deep into figuring out the etiology of the pandemic to pay attention to the overall pattern. Basically, everything we expected going into the pandemic in February turned out to be wrong. Instead of being negatively correlated with per capita income, socio-development index, mean adult height, life expectancy, protein intake per capita, calorie intake per capita, and absolute latitude, the correlations turned out to be unexpectedly positive. The next figure shows my estimates from the end of May.