Top Spec Geography: Health Geographies and the COVID-19 Pandemic

About this book

In January 2020, scientists in China revealed the existence of a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and expressed concern that its flu-like symptoms might threaten people in much the same way as the 1918 influenza pandemic had done over a century earlier. Within weeks, the virus had spread to virtually every country in the world, earning its classification as a 'pandemic'. Geographers are interested in health – where diseases originate, how, why, and where they spread, and their impacts on (and the responses by) governments. This book explores the development and spread of the virus (SARS-CoV-2) and the accompanying disease (COVID-19), discusses the impacts of the disease globally and in specific countries such as Brazil and the USA, examines the impacts of COVID-19 in the UK, uses both global and local (UK) case studies to identify the ways in which different populations were impacted, investigates access to vaccination in different parts of the world, and helps to identify themes by which students might investigate COVID-related topics in their coursework.