in the densely populated west end and downtown , there’s a sea of dark pink to indicate it’s a high risk area for loneliness and isolation — not surprising given its high percentage of people 65 years of age and older and number of people living in private single dwellings.
but click on the level of education disruption, which looks at the percentage of people aged five to 19, and it’s a different story: the map switches to beige, indicating a low risk.
overall, in a map measuring the potential secondary health impacts of covid-19 , the two neighbourhoods are light green and dark green, indicating they’re at medium high risk and high risk in the later phases of the pandemic.
anyone can go to the map and check on the risk factors for their neighbourhood by typing in their address. the map has been created by a team of researchers at simon fraser university to focus on the pandemic’s longer term impacts.
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mapping the covid-19 pandemic’s secondary health impacts is readable by any web browser. because of the software, the map defaults to metro vancouver. you can access the rest of the province by using the zoom out function.
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the website says that the map has to be considered in relation to other types of evidence, maps and tools such as the bccdc dashboard.
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