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Community, Economy and COVID-19: A Primer for Lessons from Multi-Country Analyses of a Global Pandemic

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Community, Economy and COVID-19

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has swept across the planet, killing millions of people, at a cost of trillions of dollars and untold human suffering, leaving a wake of distress, despair, and dysfunction in communities large and small. In response to this global crisis, the editors assembled a team of leading scholars from 28 countries, representing seven continents. These scholars analyzed the countries, guided by a systemic framework to assess and ultimately to facilitate individual quality of life (QOL) and the well-being of communities and countries. This chapter provides an overview of the origins and evolution of the pandemic and the framework of analysis; it introduces author-teams, their countries, and the various foci of their studies vis-à-vis the pandemic. In the final chapter, we synthesize and interpret key findings from the studies. Each country offers lessons for discerning effective interventions to mitigate the ill-being effects of COVID-19; they collectively reveal constructive engagement among catalytic institutions and their stakeholders is vital to ensure that well-being is enhanced and people, communities, and countries can flourish.

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    Also known as “Spanish flu.”

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    “The actual death toll from COVID-19 is likely to be higher than the number of confirmed deaths … due to limited testing and problems in the attribution of the cause of death” (Our World in Data, 2021).

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    When this chapter went to press, “Globally, as of 5:54 pm CEST, 1 October 2021, there have been 233,503,524 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 4,777,503 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 29 September 2021, a total of 6,143,369,655 vaccine doses have been administered”; the WHO has reported the data, daily, via this link: https://covid19.who.int/

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    Six of those continents are especially well represented. The seventh continent, Antarctica, is not included, but even its remote, small population of part-time residents has not escaped SARS-CoV-2 infection and the pandemic (Power & Dewar, 2021).

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Shultz, II, C.J., Sirgy, M.J., Rahtz, D.R. (2022). Community, Economy and COVID-19: A Primer for Lessons from Multi-Country Analyses of a Global Pandemic. In: Shultz, II, C.J., Rahtz, D.R., Sirgy, M.J. (eds) Community, Economy and COVID-19. Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98152-5_1

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