“…All of this reveals why the COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on low-income individuals and precarious workers (Santa-Ramírez et al, 2022 ), radicalized communities (Irizar et al, 2023 ), the elderly (Lithander et al, 2020 ), the disabled (Sohn et al, 2022 ), those living in rural, isolated areas or areas with poor Internet connection (Ferri et al, 2020 ), immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers and the displaced persons (Tazreiter and Metcalfe, 2021 ; Hitch et al, 2023 ), freelancers, informal economy workers (International Labour Organization, 2020 ), women (Wu and Qian, 2022 ) and children (Imran et al, 2020 ), the diagnosed mentally ill (Catalán et al, 2023 ), or the homeless (Abrams and Szefler, 2020 ; Sapey and Di Iorio, 2023 ), as well as other groups.…”