Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6074-8166

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequalities related to the digital divide. With the wide adoption of remote working and learning, telehealth, and virtual events and social activities, the technology have-nots and know-nots experienced substantial marginalization and elevated risks of COVID-19 exposure in daily lives. This study discusses the pathways through which digital exclusion could aggravate the impacts of the pandemic and explored the linkage between digital access and COVID-19 outcomes in U.S. counties. It finds that counties with higher percentages of digitally excluded populations have seen higher COVID-19 case and death rates throughout the pandemic and lower vaccination rates by January 2022.

Comments

Pre-print version of an article published to be published by Elsevier in Health & Equity.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102867

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