So does war
Dr. Tobias Ide 21, PhD in Earth Sciences from Hamburg University, MA in Political Science from the University of Leipzig, advanced PhD in Political Science from Braunschweig, Lecturer in Politics and Policy at Murdoch University, “COVID-19 and Armed Conflict”, World Development, Volume 140, April 2021
An increasing frequency or intensity of armed conflict, in turn, would seriously affect efforts to cope with the pandemic (Mehrl & Thurner, 2020). Armed groups collaterally or intentionally destroy infrastructure that is essential to a healthy life, such as water, electricity or health care (Sowers et al., 2017, Wise and Barry, 2017). In line with this, Wagner et al. (2019) find that high-intensity armed conflict increased the mortality of female non-combatants in Africa by 202%. In the worst case, migration flows triggered by violence may spread SARS-CoV-2 even further.