A statistical model built by The Economist found a link between more travel and higher-than-expected covid-19 fatality rates
THE DIVIDE between rich and poor is one of the more troubling features of American life. With the outbreak of covid-19 it may grow wider still. Lockdowns disproportionately harm blue-collar workers: many well-paid workers can continue to do their jobs from home while lower-paid ones often cannot. Afound that workers earning more than $70,000 per year can perform more than 60% of their work tasks from home; for those making less than $40,000, the figure is less than 40%.
Location data from mobile phones suggest that poorer Americans are not protecting themselves from the disease as well as richer ones. According to figures from Google, which has been compiling mapping data from mobile phones to understand how stay-at-home orders have affected people’s everyday movements, Americans travelled 35% less on the week ending on April 11th than they did on average in the five weeks between January 3rd and February 6th.
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