The Response of the United States to the Coronavirus Pandemic

Shirley Johnson-Lans ()
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Shirley Johnson-Lans: Vassar College

Chapter Chapter 2 in The Coronavirus Pandemic and Inequality, 2023, pp 7-38 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter provides an account of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, a country that has been severely hit by the virus. After presenting a history of the pandemic from January 2020 through summer of 2022, the chapter provides an analysis of the healthcare system’s response followed by an evaluation of the economic impact of the pandemic, which includes a summary of the large package of relief measures enacted in 2020–21. The final section of the chapter is a study of the pandemic’s distributional effects, including those based on socioeconomic status, age, gender, race/ethnicity, and location. This section includes a study of the effect of politicization of attitudes toward preventive measures, particularly vaccination. The chapter concludes with some tentative predictions about likely long-term effects of the pandemic.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22219-1_2

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