“…Declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a pandemic on March 11, 2020, the coronavirus 2019, or COVID-19, has swept the world and raised global awareness of the threat that current and future pandemics hold for human populations ( Altindiş and Ghafour, 2021 ; Cascella et al, 2022 ; Watson et al, 2022 ). While among unvaccinated populations everyone might be equally likely to be infected with COVID-19 from a biological perspective, substantial literature documents significant sociodemographic inequalities in the spread of the disease ( Hooper et al, 2020 ; Clouston et al, 2021 ; Hu et al, 2022 ; Lee et al, 2022 ).…”