A Newshub article.
New maps showing which parts of New Zealand are most vulnerable if there is another COVID-19 outbreak could be used to speed up future pandemic responses, experts say.
Researchers at the University of Canterbury looked at not just age – the biggest factor when it comes to the chance of dying of COVID-19 – but also ethnicity, population density, deprivation, health conditions, smoking rates, linguistic barriers and health service awareness/access to find out what regions would be most at risk in a future outbreak.
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