COVID-19: An Insult to Injury on Equity

SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, created a pandemic that not only overwhelmed the world in December 2019, but also challenged humanity in every way.

While a significant portion of the global population remained in a standstill, waiting for an end and adapting to limits of all sorts, including working from home, a new workforce category emerged: the “frontline” workers. Doctors, nurses, and all allied professions employed by the healthcare system were joined by a long line of diverse service providers. The latter faced different forms of discrimination from their surroundings, fearing the risk of infection based on high rates of medical misinformation; for the former group, Pandora’s box of bias was yet to be opened, in particular for women.

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