Pandemic precarity: COVID-19 is exposing and exacerbating inequalities in the American heartland.

ABSTRACT: Crises lay bare the social fault lines of society. In the United States, race, gender, age, and education have affected vulnerability to COVID-19 infection. Yet, consequences likely extend far beyond morbidity and mortality. Temporarily closing the economy sent shock waves through communities, raising the possibility that social inequities, preexisting and current, have weakened economic resiliency and reinforced disadvantage, especially among groups most devastated by the Great Recession. We address pandemic precarity, or risk for material and financial insecurity, in Indiana, where manufacturing loss is high, metro areas ranked among the hardest hit by the Great Recession nationally, and health indicators stand in the bottom quintile. Using longitudinal data (n = 994) from the Per

SUBMITTER: Perry BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7923675 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature