Covid-19: An Analysis Of A Catastrophes Impact From Global To Personal.

COVID-19: An Analysis of a Catastrophe’s Impact from Global to Personal.Name What is a Catastrophe?Oxford Dictionary defines “catastrophe” as any event causing great and often sudden damage or sufferingAs discussed on the first day of class, catastrophes are man-made one way or another and have temporalityThe purpose of this presentation is to explore the conditions that made COVID-19 happen, explain its impacts from varying social levels, and to answer how COVID fits this label of “catastrophe” COVID as a CatastropheThe spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID led to a massive, global pandemic that many would argue is still ongoing The COVID pandemic developed from a unique mixture of natural processes, political histories, economic landscapes, sociological differences, and global inequalitiesWhile it’s evident that the virus is the cause of the disease, there are multiple actors and mishaps that led to the pandemic itself© Korean Central News Agency What is a Pandemic, Anyway?The CDC defines a pandemic as a disease outbreak that has spread across multiple countries and continents and impacts the global populationNeither the WHO or CDC specify exactly how many countries need to be affected This differs from an epidemic, which is a disease outbreak specific to one city,