INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON COVID-19.

For most in the United States, the realities of the covid-19 pandemic hit home in March 2020. This decentralized method of handling the pandemic resulted in reinterpretations of space, place, practices, policies, and spatial patterns. Qingfang Wang and Wei Kang analyze the impact of the pandemic on small business practices in 50 MSAs and the degree of vulnerability created by policy differences. [Extracted from the article]