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SUBMITTER: Bottan N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7540865 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bottan Nicolas N Hoffmann Bridget B Vera-Cossio Diego D
PloS one 20201007 10
The current coronavirus pandemic is an unprecedented public health challenge that is having a devastating economic impact on households. Using a sample of 230,540 respondents to an online survey from 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, the study shows that the economic impacts are large and unequal: 45 percent of respondents report that a household member has lost their job and, among households owning small businesses, 59 percent of respondents report that a household member has cl ...[more]