Geography class: Inside the ‘Covid Triangle’: a catastrophe years in the making
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Changing spaces, disease dilemmas
Click to read the article below and then answer the questions:
Inside the ‘Covid Triangle’: a catastrophe years in the making
Where is the ‘covid triangle’ and why were the odds stacked against the area when the disease struck? (Include reference to rates of child poverty, the informal economy, multigenerational households)
Explain how government policies since the 1980s have contributed to economic and health inequalities.
Explain how racial discrimination has contributed to higher covid cases in parts of London.
Alasdair Monteith, Gordonstoun
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