Odds of coronavirus infection greatly increase with poverty, CDC says

Poverty can vastly increase a person’s chances of contracting the coronavirus, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Extreme deprivation could compound transmission,” the CDC concluded. Poverty and race are inextricably related, a fact that the CDC acknowledged by noting that deprivation “could exacerbate the ethnic and racial inequalities” that have been exposed by the pandemic. Testifying before…