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Rated as a top 10 book about the COVID-19 pandemic by New Statesman: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2021/07/best-books-about-covid-19-pandemic
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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.

Contents:

Foreword - Kate Pickett
1. Introduction: Perfect Storm
2. Pale Rider: Pandemic Inequalities
3. Collateral Damage: Inequalities in the Lockdown
4. Pandemic Precarity: Inequalities in the Economic Crisis
5. Pandemic Politics: Inequality through Public Policy
6. Conclusion: Health and Inequality Beyond COVID-19