Study Results from University of Wisconsin Update Understanding of COVID-19 (We Got You Covered Contextualizing Industry Insurance Practices and the Response To Covid-19): Coronavirus – COVID-19

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2022 MAR 24 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx COVID-19 Daily -- Current study results on Coronavirus - COVID-19 have been published. According to news reporting originating in Madison, Wisconsin, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “In response to Covid-19, media industries have increasingly relied upon insurance to manage risks to health and productivity loss surrounding creative labor. Analysis of contemporary trade journals reveals how the pandemic prompted new urgency around the question of who could get coverage, both by health plans protecting individual workers and cast insurance policies protecting employers.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of Wisconsin, “While Covid-19 risks are global in nature, the lack of universal health care exacerbated precarity in US media industries especially, where these two insurance practices overlap: medical coverage depends on the ability to work, which can depend on whether employers can insure their investment in that creative labor. Thus, struggles over insurance must be contextualized within historical discourses that made insurability legible within professional media work cultures.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Ultimately, this analysis reveals how corporate media cultures calculate loss and mortality, marking some, but not all, as worthy of status, investment, or protection.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: We Got You Covered Contextualizing Industry Insurance Practices and the Response To Covid-19. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2022:136787792110672. International Journal of Cultural Studies can be contacted at: Sage Publications Inc, 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA. (Sage Publications - http://www.sagepub.com/; International Journal of Cultural Studies - ics.sagepub.com)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Derek Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Communication Arts, Media & Cultural Studies, Madison, WI 53706, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779211067262. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.