TY - CHAP
T1 - COVID-19, Myth, Memory and the Second World War
AU - Smith, Christopher
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PY - 2023/8/21
Y1 - 2023/8/21
N2 - The novel SARS-CoV-2 virus, which emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, swept across the world in 2020. As of March 2022, the virus, and resulting disease, COVID-19, has killed approximately six million people. In Britain, the disease struck particularly hard, deaths per million of the population numbering 2,578 at the time of writing. A figure comparable to, or higher than, many other economically developed European countries. This tally came in spite of a highly successful vaccine roll-out programme, which has significantly reduced mortality and transmission in the UK. As was reported at the time, for much of the pandemic, Britain under-performed compared to similarly developed nations.
AB - The novel SARS-CoV-2 virus, which emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, swept across the world in 2020. As of March 2022, the virus, and resulting disease, COVID-19, has killed approximately six million people. In Britain, the disease struck particularly hard, deaths per million of the population numbering 2,578 at the time of writing. A figure comparable to, or higher than, many other economically developed European countries. This tally came in spite of a highly successful vaccine roll-out programme, which has significantly reduced mortality and transmission in the UK. As was reported at the time, for much of the pandemic, Britain under-performed compared to similarly developed nations.
U2 - 10.1515/9783110731002-006
DO - 10.1515/9783110731002-006
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783110735390
SP - 75
EP - 90
BT - RecordCovid19
A2 - Lovell, Kristopher
PB - DeGruyter
ER -
