I had been meaning to do this for a long time and finally got around to it. It’s not free for people in my age group but it turns out my insurance from work covered the cost and I just paid an injection fee.
I had been meaning to do this for a long time and finally got around to it. It’s not free for people in my age group but it turns out my insurance from work covered the cost and I just paid an injection fee.
My assertion is that general health and wealth are correlated. Basically, if you are poor or even financially unprosperous in a higher-income country, your general healthcare is substantially worse than those around you who have found financial prosperity. More cuts are made to doctors visits, healthcare expenses, immunizations and symptoms treatment, etc. These small investments that prevent big costs to health and finances later are often skipped, since unprosperous individuals feel more pressure on making ends meet.
This is prominent enough that statistics started to represent it, and if you’re interested, I did find a recent video essay on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwklXWLy2UA
It can represent itself in other ways too.
Having more money can mean better access to medications which in itself can cause less instances of infection which themselves may be the culprit.
So yes, wealth and socioeconomic status has impacts but there are still underlying correlations that exist that are just teased out because of the different group existing