{"id":574716,"date":"2026-07-30T02:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574716\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T02:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:13:09","slug":"inequality-best-predicts-how-nations-handle-pandemics-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574716\/","title":{"rendered":"Inequality best predicts how nations handle pandemics, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris \u2013 Economic inequality is the clearest way to predict how countries will fare during a pandemic, a high-profile panel said Wednesday, calling for a rethink in how governments prepare for the next global health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The research, which was published in a prestigious journal and will be presented at a major AIDS conference in Brazil, pushed back against traditional measures of pandemic preparedness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor decades, the world judged how ready a country is for a pandemic by counting its laboratories, stockpiles and response plans,\u201d study co-author and economics Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paris \u2013 Economic inequality is the clearest way to predict how countries will fare during a pandemic, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[33874,160,103,61,60],"class_list":["post-574716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-aids","tag-covid-19","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}