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The Unequal Pandemic

The Unequal Pandemic

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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- ND It has been claimed that we are ‘all in it together’ and that the COVID-19 virus ‘does not discriminate’. This accessible, yet authoritative book dispels this myth of COVID-19 as an ‘equal opportunity’ disease, by showing how the pandemic is a syndemic of disease and inequality. Drawing on international data and accounts, it argues that the pandemic is unequal in three ways: it has killed unequally, been experienced unequally and will impoverish unequally. These inequalities are a political choice: with governments effectively choosing who lives and who dies, we need to learn from COVID-19 quickly to prevent growing inequality and to reduce health inequalities in the future. COVID-19 is an unequal pandemic.

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Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • Economic & financial crises & disasters
  • Economics
  • Economics, finance, business & management
  • Health
  • health inequalities
  • inequality
  • medicine
  • Medicine: General Issues
  • Pandemic
  • Public health & preventive medicine
  • Social discrimination & inequality
  • Social issues & processes
  • Society & culture: general
  • Society & Social Sciences

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DOI: 10.47674/9781447361237

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