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Coronavirus and Cultural Impact

Coronavirus and cultural impact concerns the social, behavioral, and cultural transformations that accompanied the coronavirus pandemic, alongside the biology of the virus that prompted them. SARS-CoV-2, a member of the Coronaviridae transmitted chiefly through respiratory droplets, drove public-health responses tha…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 7× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2692-1537 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Coronavirus and cultural impact concerns the social, behavioral, and cultural transformations that accompanied the coronavirus pandemic, alongside the biology of the virus that prompted them. SARS-CoV-2, a member of the Coronaviridae transmitted chiefly through respiratory droplets, drove public-health responses that reshaped daily routines, education, work, communication, and social interaction. The cultural dimension encompasses how communities perceived and adapted to the outbreak, how knowledge and demographic circumstances influenced behavior and risk, and how disruptions to education, training, and social and intellectual capital altered collective life. It also includes the contested information environment, from public discourse that framed responses in political rather than medical terms to the spread of conspiracy theories, which shaped trust, compliance, and the reception of scientific evidence. Regional analyses highlight how the socioeconomic situation in particular settings mediated the pandemic's cultural consequences. Understanding this impact requires linking the epidemiology and transmission of the virus to the human responses it provoked. Sub-areas include changes in social behavior and communication, the effect of the pandemic on education and knowledge transmission, public perception, trust, and misinformation, and the differential cultural and socioeconomic consequences across communities. Examining the cultural impact of coronavirus situates the disease within the broader story of how societies interpret and respond to a shared health crisis.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

The Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19): A Narrative Review

Rezapour BarataliCorresponding author
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health, Assistant Professor, PhD in Health education and promotion, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
International Journal of Coronaviruses Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-20-3373

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 7 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Coronaviruses (ISSN 2692-1537).

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