A UCA study showed that access to a test to detect infection or a vaccine to treat a pandemic was better in higher-income households than in poor and rural areas.
77.8 percent of high, middle-income and middle-income households (an average income of $707.21) assured that someone in the family had received at least the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
Meanwhile, 66.9 percent of working-class and marginalized families with an average monthly income of 408.27 during the quarantine said someone had been vaccinated at home.
That statistic was lower in rural households, with 54.9 percent receiving an average of $287.13 during the health crisis shutdown.
Marlon Carranza, a professor at UCA and one of the authors of the study, affirmed that the research had shown that the Salvadoran population had responded to the Covid-19 pandemic in a differentiated way.
For example, access to a laboratory test to diagnose the disease was greater in the highest income brackets, in contrast to lower-income households, which reported the highest percentage of confirmed cases.
mem/lb