The richest 10% of French people are twice as likely to be infected with Covid-19 as the middle and disadvantaged classes.
- The more spacious accommodation makes it possible to receive more people, and promote the transmission of Sras-Cov-2.
- Affluent people are more likely to confine themselves to their second home, which increases travel and the risk of contamination with Covid-19.
The richest 10% are twice as likely to be infected with Covid-19 as the middle classes, according to an EpiCov survey unveiled by Le Parisien. The cause of this phenomenon? Social interactions, more numerous in wealthy backgrounds.
Despite smaller accommodation, CSP- have less risk of contracting the coronavirus, according to an EpiCov survey (epidemiology and living conditions), carried out by the research, studies, evaluation and statistics department (Drees ). “The opportunities to meet, more chosen than suffered, are more numerous” in wealthy circles, analysis in Le Parisien Stéphane Legleye, head of the Household Living Conditions Division at INSEE. In fact, more spacious accommodation makes it possible to receive more people, and promote the transmission of Sras-Cov-2. In addition, wealthy people are also more likely to confine themselves to their second home, which increases travel and the risk of contamination.
A survey based on 135,000 people
Be careful though: “we know that on the one hand the most affluent people tend to respond more to surveys than the less affluent, but also that the most affluent pay more attention to their health than the less affluent”, relative expert Stéphane Legleye. Other studies have also shown that migrant households are also an important vector of transmission of Covid-19, even if they are economically disadvantaged populations.
The survey, based on 135,000 people, figures that the richest 10% of French people are twice as likely to have contracted Covid-19 as those belonging to the middle classes. They are also more likely to catch it than the bottom 10%.
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