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The outbreak of COVID-19 (Sars-CoV-2), which originated in Wuhan, China in late 2019 and spread globally, triggered a number of discriminatory practices and discourses, ranging from direct anti-East Asian racism through to indirect prejudices against certain social, political and cultural groups. Those affected by indirect prejudices included individuals who already had disabilities and, while the pandemic has caused 7.1 million deaths to date, the disease itself has, in many cases, also caused long term physical compromise. Particularly at risk of this were those individuals who had pre-existing health challenges or who were from certain cultural backgrounds, with BAME individuals more severely impacted than white. As well as these two distinct categories of COVID-related disability, the virus has multiple further implications for disability, around which there is extensive scholarship and which this chapter summarises, including aspects that relate to: children, ethics, health care, disability employment, disability organisations, intellectual and neurologically challenged disability, communication, mental health, the digital divide, social inclusion, health staff mental health, and ‘do not resuscitate’ notices.
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Pheasant-Kelly, F. (in press) Disability and COVID-19. In Bennett, G., Goodall, E. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Disability. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
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