People living outside major cities at greater risk from second wave
People living outside early-hit major cities may be at highest risk during a second wave of coronavirus as those living in dense population centres like London may have already been infected according to a new study.
The research from scientists at the University of Sussex and the Francis Crick Institute tracks the daily Covid-19 death rates in major cities (London, New York, Madrid and Milan/Lombardy) of four hard-hit countries, and compares it with the corresponding nations as a whole.
They show that after lockdown - and indeed slightly before lockdown - death rates slowed more quickly in these early hit cities than in the rest of the population.
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