According to demographer Hervé Le Bras, the importance of contagion is more than “the importance of the initial economic factors of the cluster and social standards”.
According to demographer Hervé Le Bras, the importance of contagion is more than “the importance of the initial economic factors of the cluster and social standards”.
The Covid-19 epidemic in France was not favored by the level of poverty, the proportion of elderly people or the presence of minorities, according to a study by demographer Hervé Le Bras, published on the website of the Jean Jaurès Foundation on Thursday. According to the demographer, who supported his work at INSEE and public health in France, the importance of contagion is more than “the importance of clusters of initial economic factors and social standards”.
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This does not mean that “the social situation is without significance, but it occurs only in the second order. When the epidemic is there, it will attack weaker, but when it has not yet broken, the others are, of course, not in force. a greater risk than the others”, he writes he. By the irony of geography, these are the same older departments where the epidemic is the least miserable, he adds.
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“The health authorities of France state that 82% of those who died were over 70 years old. This percentage seems huge at first glance, but it is close to that recorded for other causes of mortality” (77% of deaths in France in 2018).
Nothing to do with the poverty map
According to his study, “the poverty map no longer recorded” that of the frequency of deaths from Covid-19. “The poorest regions include the hat of northern France, with a broad Mediterranean border and a diagonal of emptiness shorter than the Ardennes in the central Pyrenees”. “This doesn’t look like the North Pole – it’s an epidemic,” he said again.
“In 14 districts, mortality was lower in 2020 than in the previous five-year average,” and the “most significant” is that of Cantal, where 15 percent fewer died than in previous years.
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The researcher concludes that “there is no relationship between the progress of even a modest epidemic in the area and the degree of urbanization, the level of poverty, the proportion of elderly people and the proportion of immigrants originating from Turkey and the Maghreb”.
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“All these cues play an important role in the survival of individuals once they are infected, but at the ward level we can see no trace of their influence on the spread of the epidemic,” he writes.
Date of update: June 11, 2020, 1:58 p.m
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