Paris (AFP) - After COVID-19 first appeared in China late last year, doctors quickly realised what made some patients more vulnerable to the virus than others: age, gender and underlying health problems all played a part.Now, as the pandemic kills hundreds across the world each day, experts say evidence is mounting that other socioeconomic factors -- specifically connected to race and income -- influence who become sick and who dies.Officials in Europe and the US have insisted that COVID-19 doesn't discriminate. But the figures suggest otherwise.A slew of recent studies have highlighted how pe...
