"Women are most affected by pandemics -Lessons from past outbreaks": Correction

Reports an error in "Women are most affected by pandemics -Lessons from past outbreaks" by Clare Wenham, Julia Smith, Sara E Davies, Huiyun Feng, Karen A Grepin, Sophie Harman, Asha Herten-Crabb and Rosemary Morgan (Nature, 2020[Jul][9], Vol 583[7815], 194-198) This Comment erroneously stated that 94 countries had reported commitments to support informal workers financially In fact the number is 29 (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2020-51434-001 ) The social and economic impacts of COVID-19 fall harder on women than on men During outbreaks of Ebola and Zika viruses in the past few years women's socio-economic security was upended, and for longer than men's Here, we call for COVID-19 research, response and recovery efforts that are tailored to support women The three priorities are to tackle domestic violence;ensure access to sexual- and reproductive-health services;and support women's livelihoods Governments need to gather data and target policy to keep all citizens equally safe, sheltered and secure (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)