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BBC News By Christine Jeavans image copyrightGetty Images Healthcare in the UK has vastly improved since Victorian times, yet the geography of coronavirus deaths closely follows the pattern of poor health in the 19th Century. A succession of studies has found a link between Covid-19 and poverty, with the latest describing a jaw-dropping fall in life expectancy in Greater Manchester due to the pandemic. That pattern of deeply entrenched deprivation and ill-health stretches back at least 170 years, according to the chief medical officer for England. If you had a map of Covid s biggest effects now and a map of child deaths in 1850, they look remarkably similar, Prof Chris Whitty told an NHS conference in June. ....