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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