Oxfam says the rich got richer in the pandemic, and the wealth gap is killing the poor | NPR Goats & Soda

CEID Faculty Dr. Muhammad Zaman weighs in on a recent Oxfam report called “Inequality Kills”:

“…Dr. Muhammad Zaman, a professor of biomedical engineering and international health at Boston University, says the findings in the report are ‘troubling but unfortunately, not surprising.’

‘Some people have been saying that the pandemic is a great equalizer – that everybody feels it the same way, but that’s just not true,’ says Zaman. ‘That’s never true in infectious diseases.’…”

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