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01-07-2022 | COVID-19 | Editorial

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Family Violence: Reflecting on Two Years’ Research

Author: Rebecca J. Macy

Published in: Journal of Family Violence | Issue 5/2022

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In December 2019, an unknown pneumonia virus emerged in Wuhan, Hubei Providence, China (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2022). By early 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO), which named the virus “COVID-19,” began to act to address this novel public health threat. On March 11, 2020, the WHO pronounced COVID-19 to be a pandemic, and around the globe countries declared national states of emergencies that included policies to enact masking, social distancing, and “lockdowns” (e.g., quarantines, stay-at-home orders). In addition, to mitigate the spread of the virus and protect healthcare systems from being overwhelmed, many businesses and workplaces, government offices, schools and universities were closed (CDC, 2022). …

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Title: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Family Violence: Reflecting on Two Years’ Research
Author: Rebecca J. Macy
Publication date: 01-07-2022
Publisher: Springer US
Keyword: COVID-19
Published in: Journal of Family Violence / Issue 5/2022
Print ISSN: 0885-7482
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2851
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-022-00410-9

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