The preexisting conditions of the coronavirus pandemic

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A massive new accounting of the health of humans on Earth, collating and inferring stats on hundreds of diseases and injuries across 204 nations, has mostly good news. People are healthier, and they stay that way for longer. The bad news: That's not true if those people are poor, are people of color, live in the United States, and there's a pandemic.

Then they're screwed.

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