Public health experts have recently urged people to dump their cloth masks in favor of higher-quality options and to test more frequently to curb the virus.
For some, the added financial burden is an irritation, but still affordable. To others, the prospect of paying $1 for a single disposable mask or $24 for a test kit is an economic impossibility, raising the specter that the pandemic will continue to exacerbate inequalities.
During the pandemic, three-quarters of workers said it was very or somewhat difficult to make ends meet, 40% said they couldn’t come up with $400 in the event of an emergency and around 20% said they went hungry because they couldn’t afford enough to eat, , an ongoing survey of American hourly wage workers operated by Harvard University sociologist Daniel Schneider.
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