Chris Whitty on Covid, Class & History
The geographical areas where Covid has hit have been extremely defined, where the biggest problems have been repeated.
So, you see in situations in Bradford, in Leicester, in bits of London for example, in bits of the north west, you see repeated areas where places have been hit over and over again in areas of deprivation.
Indeed in many of them, if you had a map of Covid’s biggest effects now and a map of child deaths in 1850, they look remarkably similar.
These are areas where deprivation has been prolonged and deeply entrenched.
Extract from speech to NHS Confederation 17th June
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