Coronavirus: Why It Hits High-Income Countries Hardest

Coronavirus: Why It Hits High-Income Countries Hardest

Author: Stitcher & Bill Nye March 16, 2021 Duration: 24:24
Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee takes us through his investigation into why low-income countries seem to have largely escaped the pandemic’s wrath — and why they still need to get vaccines.

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