One of Newcastle researchers behind groundbreaking maps used to track areas more vulnerable to Covid and more likely to be vaccine-hesitant has explained they will be vital to helping health authorities to battle new variants - and even future pandemics.
Dr Claire Welsh, a senior research associate at Newcastle University and deputy director of analytics at the Integrated Covid Hub North East's (ICHNE) Co-ordination and Response Centre, told ChronicleLive how the mapping tools reflecting the "pre-existing pandemic" of health inequality.
Dr Welsh's has led work to produce two tools to highlight the Medium Super Output Areas (MSOAs) - which are roughly analogous to postcode areas - around the country where people are more likely to be vulnerable or vaccine-hesitant.
