Double jeopardy; What happens when an epidemic is followed by an earthquake? (CROSBI ID 295733)
Prilog u časopisu | prikaz, osvrt, kritika | međunarodna recenzija
Podaci o odgovornosti
Ćurković, Marko ; Svetina, Lucija ; Košec, Andro
engleski
Double jeopardy; What happens when an epidemic is followed by an earthquake?
A crisis is an immediate threat to the functioning of society, while disaster is an actual manifestation of a crisis. Both are now even more critically socially constructed. In the middle of battle with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Republic of Croatia's capital of Zagreb was afflicted with another disaster - two severe earthquakes. Restrictive public health measures were already in place, including restriction on public transport, travel between regions, closure of educational and other public institutions, alongside measures of physical distancing. Most previous cases of COVID- 19 were centered in Zagreb, leading to concern of spreading the disease into disease-free communities. It seems that earthquakes did not have an effect on disease transmission - the number of COVID-19 cases remained stable through the 14-day incubation period, with a linear pandemic curve in Croatia in April, and flattened in May. This leads to a conclusion that the earthquake did not have a direct effect on disease spread. Despite the fact that the current pandemic and its responses are unique, this paradox can have interesting repercussions on how we conceptualize and approach notions as vulnerability and resilience.
COVID-19 ; crisis ; earthquake ; pandemic ; resilience
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Podaci o izdanju
36
2021.
100402
5
objavljeno
1877-5845
10.1016/j.sste.2021.100402
Povezanost rada
Biotehnologija u biomedicini (prirodno područje, biomedicina i zdravstvo, biotehničko područje)