Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 June 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

World Health Organization: Public Health Advice

Dr. David Nabarro:

The Deputy is absolutely right that it is because of the different age structures of populations. Again, poor countries seem to be having, in some cases, quite different illness profiles from Covid. I have heard reports - still anecdotal - of great increases in cardiovascular disease, heart attack rates and other such things. I still think there is a real need not to imagine that poor countries are getting off lightly. I do not think they are.

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