This collection sheds light on the cascading crises engendered by COVID-19 on many aspects of society from the economic to the digital. This issue of the American Behavioral Scientist brings together scholarship examining the various ways in which many vulnerable populations are bearing a disproportionate share of the costs of COVID-19. As the articles bring to light, the unequal effects of the pandemic are reverberating along preexisting fault lines and creating new ones. In the economic realm, the rental market emerges during the pandemic as an economic arena of heightened socio-spatial and racial/ethnic disparities. Financial markets are another domain where market mechanisms mask the exploitative relationships between the economically vulnerable and powerful actors. Turning to gender inequalities, across national contexts, women represent an increasingly vulnerable segment of the labor market as the pandemic piles on new burdens of remote schooling and caregiving despite a variety of policy initiatives. Moving from the economic to the digital domain, we see how people with disabilities employ social media to mitigate increased vulnerability stemming from COVID-19. Finally, the key effects of digital vulnerability are heightened because the digitally disadvantaged experience not only informational inequalities but also aggravated bodily manifestations of stress or anxiety related to the pandemic. Each article contributes to our understanding of the larger mosaic of inequality that is being exacerbated by the pandemic. By drawing connections between these different aspects of the social world and the effects of COVID-19, this issue of American Behavioral Scientist advances our understanding of the far-reaching ramifications of the pandemic on vulnerable members of society.

该合集揭示了COVID-19在社会的各个方面（从经济到数字化）所引发的级联危机。本期《美国行为科学家》汇集了奖学金，研究了许多弱势人群在COVID-19成本中所占比例不成比例的各种方式。随着文章的揭露，大流行的不平等影响正在沿既有的断层线回荡，并创造了新的断层线。在经济领域，租赁市场在大流行期间作为社会空间和种族/族裔差异加剧的经济舞台出现。金融市场是市场机制掩盖经济脆弱和强大参与者之间的剥削关系的另一个领域。关于性别不平等，在全国范围内，尽管流行病采取了各种政策举措，但由于流行病使偏远的学校教育和照料增加了新的负担，因此妇女在劳动力市场中的地位日益脆弱。从经济领域转向数字领域，我们看到残疾人如何利用社交媒体来缓解COVID-19带来的日益严重的脆弱性。最后，数字脆弱性的关键影响得到了增强，因为数字弱势群体不仅经历了信息不平等，而且加剧了与大流行有关的压力或焦虑的身体表现。每篇文章都有助于我们理解大流行加剧的不平等现象。通过将社会世界的这些不同方面与COVID-19的影响联系起来，本期《美国行为科学家》使我们对大流行对社会弱势群体的深远影响产生了深刻的理解。我们看到了残疾人如何利用社交媒体来缓解COVID-19带来的脆弱性增加。最后，数字脆弱性的关键影响得到了增强，因为数字弱势群体不仅经历了信息不平等，而且加剧了与大流行有关的压力或焦虑的身体表现。每篇文章都有助于我们理解大流行加剧的不平等现象。通过将社会世界的这些不同方面与COVID-19的影响联系起来，本期《美国行为科学家》使我们对大流行对社会弱势群体的深远影响产生了深刻的理解。我们看到了残疾人如何利用社交媒体来缓解COVID-19带来的脆弱性增加。最后，数字脆弱性的关键影响得到了增强，因为数字弱势群体不仅经历了信息不平等，而且加剧了与大流行有关的压力或焦虑的身体表现。每篇文章都有助于我们理解大流行加剧的不平等现象。通过将社会世界的这些不同方面与COVID-19的影响联系起来，本期《美国行为科学家》使我们对大流行对社会弱势群体的深远影响产生了深刻的理解。数字弱势群体的主要影响得到了增强，因为数字弱势群体不仅经历了信息不平等，而且加剧了与大流行有关的压力或焦虑的身体表现。每篇文章都有助于我们理解大流行加剧的不平等现象。通过将社会世界的这些不同方面与COVID-19的影响联系起来，本期《美国行为科学家》使我们对大流行对社会弱势群体的深远影响产生了深刻的理解。数字弱势群体的主要影响得到了增强，因为数字弱势群体不仅经历了信息不平等，而且加剧了与大流行有关的压力或焦虑的身体表现。每篇文章都有助于我们理解大流行加剧的不平等现象。通过将社会世界的这些不同方面与COVID-19的影响联系起来，本期《美国行为科学家》使我们对大流行对社会弱势群体的深远影响产生了深刻的理解。每篇文章都有助于我们理解大流行加剧的不平等现象。通过将社会世界的这些不同方面与COVID-19的影响联系起来，本期《美国行为科学家》使我们对大流行对社会弱势群体的深远影响产生了深刻的理解。每篇文章都有助于我们理解大流行加剧的不平等现象。通过将社会世界的这些不同方面与COVID-19的影响联系起来，本期《美国行为科学家》使我们对大流行对社会弱势群体的深远影响产生了深刻的理解。