FIGURE 1.

Impact of pre‐existing social differences on the outcome of COVID‐19 pandemic. (A) In a given metropolis, the initial event of pandemic can hit two geographical areas, which segregate intrinsic social, economic, structural, health and medical differences. (B) COVID‐19 pandemic has the chance to hit each area in a totally different way and violence since the above‐mentioned differences are important predisposing; (C) the consequences of the pandemic will ultimately depend on the underlying capacity of resilience, which is weaker below ‘the line of poverty’. The ultimate outcome of the pandemic (bringing the concept of ‘syndemic’) will increase the burden of inequalities between the two social realities Source: Mumbai, India (2017), Extreme wealth and opulence exist side by side in India's financial capital, Mumbai. With permission from J. Miller, Unequal Scenes ‐ Mumbai.