Disability and COVID-19: the global impacts

COVID-19 presents a threat to life and liberty to people across the globe. In this series of blogs, the authors write about the impact of the pandemic on the lives of disabled people and their families in their communities.

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Despite claims that ‘we are all in it together’, it is already clear that the pandemic will impact disproportionately on the lives of people who are already marginalised through the workings of neoliberal-ableism and globalisation.

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