Covid risks making society more unequal than since early Victorian times – The Guardian

In the midst of Covid-19 it is easy to forget that the country is facing not just one, but two, very badly managed public health emergencies. The substantial and largely avoidable death toll in the current epidemic is undoubtedly due to a series of ill-informed and inept decisions about how the country should respond to its greatest public health crisis in more than a century. But the viruss task was undoubtedly made easier by a serious deterioration in the health of the population over the past…

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