In this editorial update, we provide perspective regarding what has transpired since these commentaries were written and published online in July 2020 (Scott et al. 2020). We remain in the midst of a pandemic that has rapidly and catastrophically spread worldwide. Indeed, as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, it has underscored social inequalities and divides affecting the world. Though not comprehensive, here we highlight a selection of these pressing issues, which warrant additional critical examination. Namely, we discuss the racial inequalities, gender inequalities, and political divides that have been magnified during the COVID-19 pandemic. As of October 2020, there have been over 50 million COVID-19 infections and over 1.25 million deaths from the disease. More than 6,000 people continue to die each day, with more than 1,000 of those coming from the United States (https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirusdeaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants; Yan and Maxouris 2020). Public policy, marketing, and consumer psychology play a crucial role in how public health measures have been embraced or rejected. New terminology such as “COVID burnout” captures the exhaustion faced by individuals, organizations, and governments alike as they persist with steps to prevent the spread of the disease through mask wearing, social distancing, and hygiene practices as well as cope with the accompanying financial, social, and emotional costs (Blaschka 2020; Lufkin 2020). Governments face uncertainty in balancing, on the one hand, health priorities such as reducing the spread of disease to avoid the downstream impact of an overwhelmed healthcare system and, on the other hand, economic priorities such as minimizing bankruptcies among companies and individuals. Differing cultural norms and political infrastructures resulted in varied levels of stringency in governmental responses to COVID-19 in different parts of the world (e.g., containment measures taken, economic support provided, consistency of response; Hale et al. 2020). For example, South Korea, with 8.81 COVID-19 deaths per million, is identified as an exemplar of virus containment; in contrast, the United States and Brazil have struggled with containment, resulting in 679.06 and 744.26 deaths per million, respectively. These varied approaches have affected citizens’ perceptions of their country’s response; for instance, citizens of Australia, Denmark, and South Korea are satisfied with their country’s response, but citizens of the United States and the United Kingdom indicate that their countries have done a poor job (Devlin and Connaughton 2020). Individuals, communities, organizations, and governments have been coping with the impact and uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has raged across the globe affecting nearly every aspect of life. Individuals face uncertainty about employment, financial stability, and food and housing availability; and the vulnerable—particularly those who lack financial resources, power, and/or advocacy—are disproportionately affected. For example, in the United States, individuals in nursing homes make up 40% of the COVID cases, laying bare the particular vulnerability of the elderly and the disabled (Alonso-Zaldivar 2020). Moreover, around the world, individuals in lower-power positions, such as ethnic and racial minorities and well as migrant workers, are disproportionately affected by COVID-19 and its associated policies (Jordan 2020; Quayyum and Kpodar 2020). Job loss, coupled with stay-at-home orders that keep children home from school, has shifted the way families function, and this has especially affected women. Large companies as well as small businesses

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评论系列简介：我们继续应对全球大流行病的不平等和分歧

在这篇社论更新中，我们提供了关于自这些评论于 2020 年 7 月撰写并在线发布以来发生的事情的观点（Scott 等人，2020 年）。我们仍处于一场在全球范围内迅速而灾难性地蔓延的大流行病。事实上，随着 COVID-19 大流行的肆虐，它凸显了影响世界的社会不平等和分歧。虽然不全面，但我们在这里重点介绍了一些这些紧迫的问题，这些问题值得进行额外的严格审查。也就是说，我们讨论了在 COVID-19 大流行期间被放大的种族不平等、性别不平等和政治分歧。截至 2020 年 10 月，已有超过 5000 万人感染了 COVID-19，超过 125 万人死于该疾病。每天有超过 6,000 人继续死亡，其中超过 1, 000 名来自美国的人（https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirusdeaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants；Yan 和 Maxouris 2020）。公共政策、营销和消费者心理在如何接受或拒绝公共卫生措施方面发挥着至关重要的作用。“COVID倦怠”等新术语反映了个人、组织和政府等人在坚持采取措施通过戴口罩、保持社交距离和卫生习惯来防止疾病传播以及应对随之而来的财务问题时所面临的疲惫。 、社会和情感成本（Blaschka 2020；Lufkin 2020）。一方面，政府在平衡卫生优先事项方面面临不确定性，例如减少疾病传播以避免不堪重负的医疗保健系统的下游影响，以及，另一方面，经济优先事项，例如尽量减少公司和个人之间的破产。不同的文化规范和政治基础设施导致世界不同地区政府对 COVID-19 的反应不同程度的严格（例如，采取的遏制措施、提供的经济支持、反应的一致性；Hale 等人，2020 年）。例如，韩国每百万人中有 8.81 人死于 COVID-19，被认为是病毒遏制的典范；相比之下，美国和巴西一直在努力遏制，分别导致每百万人中有 679.06 人和 744.26 人死亡。这些不同的方法影响了公民对其国家应对措施的看法；例如，澳大利亚、丹麦和韩国的公民对其国家的反应感到满意，但美国和英国的公民表示他们的国家做得很差（Devlin and Connaughton 2020）。个人、社区、组织和政府一直在应对 COVID-19 大流行的影响和不确定性，它在全球范围内肆虐，几乎影响了生活的方方面面。个人在就业、财务稳定性以及食物和住房供应方面面临不确定性；而弱势群体——尤其是那些缺乏财政资源、权力和/或倡导的人——受到的影响尤其严重。例如，在美国，疗养院的个人占 COVID 病例的 40%，暴露了老年人和残疾人的特殊脆弱性（Alonso-Zaldivar 2020）。此外，在世界各地，处于较低权力职位的个人，COVID-19 及其相关政策（约旦 2020；Quayyum 和 Kpodar 2020）对少数族裔和种族以及移民工人的影响尤为严重。失业，加上让孩子不能上学的居家令，已经改变了家庭的运作方式，这对女性的影响尤其大。大公司和小企业