Homeland Security Affairs Journal Special COVID-19 Issue ; The article record may be found at https://www.hsaj.org/articles16533 ; The effects of the novel coronavirus and its related disease COVID-19 have been far reaching, touching American society and its Western partners' health and mortality, economics, social relationships, and politics. The effects have highlighted longstanding societal divisions, disproportionately harming minority groups and the socioeconomically disadvantaged with Black…CONTINUE READING ; Sponsored the U. S. Department of Homeland Security's National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA, CHDS is part of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS).