Abstract
The 2019 pandemic was a global health crisis caused by the Covid-19 novel coronavirus. As of 3 October 2023, 676,609,955 cases and 6,881,955 deaths were reported internationally (John Hopkins University, 2023). Everyone has been affected to some extent by the Covid-19 pandemic regardless of their status and situation in life. This paper focuses on the extent and ways the Covid-19 pandemic affected disabled and able-bodied groups of people and those who are classified as having “other” identities. It presents results from an online survey which collected responses from 1325 participants living in 52 countries. This paper will focus more specifically on the 1059 participants residing in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
The paper finds that a larger proportion of disabled participants were negatively impacted by Covid-19 than their able-bodied peers.