Eric Reidy, is a journalist and the Migration Editor-at-large for The New Humanitarian who has reported extensively on migration in the Mediterranean and North America. He has provided a thorough picture of the pandemic’s impact on many countries, in particular India and Bangladesh. These two populous nations were, like many countries, caught unprepared when the virus arrived. He reported how governments scrambled to manufacture their own vaccines, but faced bans on exports of raw materials. Their efforts were deterred by inequality in vaccine distribution and hoarding in rich countries. UN teams dispatched to assist refugees, including those in Rohingya camps in Bangladesh, faced similar frustration from the lack of medical assistance and drugs to treat Covid-19 cases, leading them to wonder whether inequality and poverty killed more people than the virus.