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Sir Michael Marmot on COVID-19, inequality, and the future of society

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Inequality and Cober 19

600 and forty millionaires increased their wealth by one trillion dollars nine months. It means that they could write cheques for every single one of the 330 million americans for three thousand dollars per person. And these millionaires would have the same wealth as they had before the pandemic happened. So i think you could ask why we decided to talk about inequalities and coben 19. Now there's been so much said about it over the last year. Michael marmer released his report in about the implications the inequalities had in cober 19 in the u k. One would like things to change, not because the old system crashed. But you could argue that that old model has run its course and there is

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