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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 EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- ND 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. Front Cover Endorsement The Unequal Pandemic: COVID- 19 and Health Inequalities Copyright information Table of contents List of figures and tables About the authors Acknowledgments Foreword Preface ONE Introduction: perfect storm COVID-19: the unequal pandemic Health inequalities Perfect storm: syndemic pandemic37 The rest of the book Chapter Two, ‘Pale rider: pandemic inequalities’ Chapter Three, ‘Collateral damage: inequalities in the lockdown’ Chapter Four, ‘Pandemic precarity: inequalities in the economic crisis’ Chapter Five, ‘Pandemic politics: inequality through public policy’ Chapter Six, ‘Conclusion: health and inequality beyond COVID-19’ TWO Pale rider: pandemic inequalities Introduction An unequal pandemic Deprivation and COVID-19 Occupational inequalities in COVID-19 Racial/ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 Intersectional inequalities in COVID-19 The ghost of pandemics past The syndemic of COVID-19 and inequality71 Conclusion THREE Collateral damage: inequalities in the lockdown Introduction Collateral health and wellbeing impacts Collateral social and community impacts Collateral employment, income and wealth impacts Conclusion: reducing collateral damage through politics and policy FOUR Pandemic precarity: inequalities in the economic crisis Introduction An unequal crisis Recessions, health and inequality19 Lessons from the global financial crisis: social security nets matter Conclusion FIVE Pandemic politics: inequality through public policy Syndemic pandemic: black swan, white swan, or grey rhino? Three worlds of inequality How political policy choices affected pandemic inequalities Inequalities under lockdown Variation in political and policy responses to the pandemic Conclusion: pandemic politics SIX Conclusion: health and inequality beyond COVID-19 Introduction Trends in health inequalities: before and after COVID-19 Reducing health inequalities case study 1: German reunification in the 1990s11 Reducing health inequalities case study 2: English health inequalities strategy in the 2000s Lessons for a post-COVID-19 future: policy Lessons for a post-COVID-19 future: politics Conclusion: hope in a time of COVID-19 Notes References Index Back Cover 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. https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51451/2/9781447361251.epub EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- ND This accessible, yet authoritative book shows how the pandemic is a syndemic of disease and inequality. It argues that these inequalities are a political choice and we need to learn quickly to prevent growing inequality and to reduce health inequalities in the future. This accessible, yet authoritative book shows how the pandemic is a syndemic of disease and inequality. Drawing on international data and accounts, it argues that these inequalities are a political choice and we need to learn quickly to prevent growing inequality and to reduce health inequalities in the future.