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The burden of keeping the country functioning during the coronavirus crisis is already falling on many of the worse paid of our society.

Those on lower income may also be more prone to the underlying health conditions - heart disease and Diabetes- that makes you more vulnerable.

With the economic impact of the virus and the measures designed to slow its spread threatening a new depression, those divisions seem set to continue or deepen.

These widening social divisions may make the long term effects of the pandemic even more deadly.

What options do we have to prevent a new divide?

Helen Thomas reports, and Emily Maitlis is joined by Vicky Pryce, Joint Head of the UK Economic Service, 2007-10, Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Chief Economist of the World Bank, 1997-2000, and Labour’s Yvette Cooper, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, 2008-09.