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Inequalities and identity processes in crises: recommendations for facilitating safe response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Structural inequalities and identity processes are pivotal to understanding public response to COVIDâ19. We discuss how identity processes can be used to promote communityâlevel support, safe normative behaviour, and increase compliance with guidance. However, we caution how government failure to account for structural inequalities can alienate vulnerable groups, inhibit groups from being able to follow guidance, and lead to the creation of new groups in response to illegitimate treatment. Moreover, we look ahead to the longitudinal impacts of inequalities during pandemics and advise government bodies should address identityâbased inequalities to mitigate negative relations with the public and subsequent collective protest